Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good hops with city water. In 1871 he put out 33,512 barrels, and knew that he would be a rich man. He made up his mind to work harder. He had eight children. Every evening, coming home hungry, he tucked his napkin in his neck and filled his stomach with good food. His stein was always refilled several times. When he became fabulously rich a reporter asked him what was the secret of his success. George Ehret smiled vaguely and, with a big hand on the table, seemed to lose himself in memories. "Ja . . . ja. . . ." The reporter quoted...
...President Bizzell might have taken an emetic, or gulped down some ice cream or cracked ice ; or tried some chloroform, musk or morphine; or put a hot water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany...
...Northwestern University, Chicago, Dr. A. C. Ivy, Professor of physiology, cut the stomach out of a dog two years ago. Last week he commented: "Instead of gulping down his food, this dog eats slowly and the food is perfectly digested in the intestinal trac He appears to understand that he must masticate thoroughly and takes him 12 hours out of 24 for his meals. This test shows how patients who have had part of ther stomachs removed because of cancer should...
...Ritz last week, she said: "Never believe the old adage that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Personality counts more-what you say and how you say it. ... I never regarded myself as a cook while I was preparing a meal. Instead I thought of myself as a hostess, perhaps that's why I've succeeded...
Died. Edmund W. Booth, 60, editor and manager of the Grand Rapids Press, and stockholder in six other Michigan newspapers; in Grand Rapids, of, hemorrhage of the stomach...