Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday came the ominous report that the patient was taking no nourishment; that William Gerry Morgan, Washington stomach specialist, had been called in consultation; that oxygen and hypodermic injections had been necessary to sustain life through the night...
...Medicine when injected directly into the veins often works more swiftly and successfully than medicine given through the stomach." So said Dr. W. Forest Dutton, Medical Director of the hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania, in reporting (from Philadelphia) the satisfactory treatment of several cases by a new method. The approach to the enemy bacillus through the bloodstream is called intravenous therapy. Formerly, only five drugs could be so administered, but today the number has been extended to 140, and the treatment is applicable to almost as many diseases. Especially in cases of pneumonia and diphtheria, the rapid passage...
...stomach ache. It caused Suzanne to exclaim: Je ne peux plus jouer...
...OFF?George Randolph Chester?Harper ($2.00). A pleasant picture of the cinema industry as conceived by the average fan. The hero, gifted with a winning smile, infallibility, a flat stomach and gangle shanks, sells his services to "Magnificent Pictures" at an initial salary of one dime per week and progresses in nine years to the dignity of a divorce scandal and his life-long ambition: "Isidor Iskovitch Presents." The story of his rise begins with the assembling of a $10,000-stake from seven Iskovitch uncles blessed with red beards and businesses of the varying styles to be expected from...
...Sadie Bingham Lampkin, trustee of the Christian Science Society of Red Bank, N. J., fell ill of a pain in her stomach. She called a Christian Science healer and later reported herself "gloriously healed." A few weeks later she died. A licensed doctor refused to issue a death certificate. Thereupon the county physician, accompanied by a police sergeant, went to the home of the deceased, procured the body, performed an autopsy, declared that Mrs. Lampkin had died of peritonitis caused by a gallstone which had ruptured the lining of her stomach and that an operation would most certainly have saved...