Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing quite equals the secular newsmagazine for giving a fresh perspective to things religious. Continue such exposure: the preachers may learn why multitudes of thinking people cannot stomach the churches, and the laity will surely come to demand more responsible thinking by the clergy. In our time, Christianity needs nothing so much as the courage to base its outlook squarely upon reason applied to the observable facts of human experience, rather than upon the imaginative speculation of past ages...
...privilege against self-incrimination applies only to verbal questions, not to compulsory physical or mental examinations. But things are changing fast. In Rochin v. California (1952), for example, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an alleged drug addict because the evidence against him was obtained by forced stomach pumping. It is anomalous, wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter, "to hold that to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach...
...overdose may be lethal for small children, and 100 or more in the U.S. die from aspirin poisoning in an average year. Thousands more, beguiled by candy coatings and flavors, are made so deathly ill that they have to have their stomachs pumped out. Aspirin irritates the lining of the stomach, and ulcer victims often find the effects of the medicine worse than the headache they are trying to cure. In extreme cases, they suffer internal bleeding or their ulcers perforate. As with all drugs, a few people are abnormally sensitive to aspirin; even a normal dose may cause dizziness...
When circulation through the liver is blocked by disease, the blood backs up into the veins lining the gullet (esophagus) and sometimes the stomach as well. The swollen, twisted veins are called varices. Their thin walls are prone to break and let blood ooze, or even gush, into the digestive tract. To squeeze the veins shut and thus stop the bleeding, two New York surgeons, Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken and Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore, devised a most ingenious triple tube...
...innermost tube (see diagram) goes into the stomach so that any escaped blood can be suctioned off. The second, with a balloon on its end, goes just inside the stomach, where it is inflated to serve as an anchor. The third chamber is a sausage-shaped balloon nine inches long, which is inflated in the gullet. Its pressure against the varices stops the bleeding...