Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cancer. Said Dr. Osmond: "Prolonged nervous strain and gulping of food, such as many American business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is apt to produce what is known as cardiospasm, when the nerves do not coordinate, and when food which is swallowed does not get into the stomach, but is retained in the gullet,* which expands until sometimes as much as a quart of food is held by it. "The victim experiences great discomfort which is often erroneously attributed to indigestion, and the gullet is inflamed, frequently resulting in cancer where there is a tendency toward that...
...tube beginning at the lower termination of the pharynx, passing through the neck and chest behind the windpipe to join the stomach; the esophagus...
...shot in the stomach at the battle of Chancellorsville, a most bloody engagement, by a man who years later was glad the bullet had missed his heart...
...same William James, when a student who had filled out a study card with nothing but philosophy once came to him for advice, turned to the young man with the remark, "You mustn't try to philosophize on an empty stomach!" This tradition is still carried on in the Department. The student is urged to combine his philosophy with other things, to go to the sciences, to history, to literature, for concrete material for his philosophical reflections. One can not live on a diet of generalization, but neither can he live by bread alone; and the primary appeal of philosophy...
...Larry--In the first place, the Alimental Assassins are mainstays of a highly intellectual community. It is our creed that every great work of the intellect proceeds from an empty stomach. Do you believe this...