Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lungs. The lungs have become the seventh most frequent locale for cancer. (First is the stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem...
...wrestling ring in Atlanta, Joseph Stecher, world's heavyweight champion, pursued an old man. Every now and again he would leap in air, waving his legs -legs so prehensile that whenever Stecher wraps them around a wrestler's stomach, the wrestler falls down in agony. The old man, bent nearly double, seemed tired; he staggered when he dodged the python legs. His head hung forward on his neck, but that neck was nearly as big as the head itself, for the old man was Stanislaus Zbyszko, aging Polish wrestler, But what was this ? The crowd rose, shrieking...
...numerous alleged "eyewitnesses," who described the kidnaping in lurid but greatly dissimilar accounts. They all professed to have seen a desperate struggle take place while Matteotti was being bundled into the car. Said one: "Matteotti kicked a hole in the windshield." Said another: "Dumini kicked Matteotti in the stomach." Said a third witness: "They fought so hard that I thought they must be moving-picture actors. But I didn't notice any camera...
Milk. At childbirth the mother's breasts yield a yellowish, sticky fluid called colostrum. This is good for the child, although it is only slightly nourishing. Yet it is laxative and prepares the child's stomach for true milk, which arrives shortly after...
...Charles L. Lockwood of the Gorgas Memorial Institute, explained in Chicago last week, there is ever the possibility of stomach ulcer, of appendicitis, of obstructed intestines, cases in which cathartics are a positive menace, cases in which only a surgeon or skilled physician should intervene. In cases of stomach ulcer the stomach wall is thinned or even already perforated. The carthartic induces the stomach to contract and the partly digested food oozes into the peritoneal cavity. Fatal peritonitis results. In intestinal obstruction the intestines may be blocked by the caked products of digestion or they may be blocked...