Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Germany, he is steadily enriching U. S. medicine. From Chicago, where he has been an associate professor at the University of Chicago medical school since fleeing Germany in 1934, came Dr. Rudolf Schindler to demonstrate his flexible gastroscope,only instrument which makes possible direct observation of a living stomach...
...fortified British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, 100 miles below Canton, Chinese military heads decided not to fortify the city, left it defended by untrained provincial troops. Japanese commanders decided on the South China campaign only after Britain's capitulation at Munich convinced them that Britain had no stomach for a dispute in the Far East, Chiang insisted. In fact, Japanese troops were this week within half a mile of the borders of Hong Kong, inside which they accidentally popped a few shells, as Chinese regulars, out to recapture Canton, pushed their front to within 40 miles...
...that, while Professor Frankfurter was as deep-dyed a liberal as the President could wish for, nevertheless he (the Professor, that is) has a conscience, and the thought of using the sophisticated argument that the Justices were so old they needed six additional associates, was more than he could stomach. Or perhaps the memory of Mr. Justice Holmes, in full possession of his faculties at the age of 91, was too fresh. In any event, Professor Frankfurter did not support the Court packing plan, and the President was deeply wounded...
Snuff for Ulcers. Peptic ulcers are erosions of the wall of the stomach or duodenum caused by excessive secretion of pepsin, hydrochloric acid and other powerful digestive juices. Dr. Matthew Hill Metz and Robert W. Lackey, Ph.D., of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas, reported that they had healed 55 out of 60 peptic ulcers by giving the patients two-thirds of a grain of powder, ground" from dried pituitary glands of cattle, to sniff four times a day. Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions. Inhalation resulted in slower absorption...
Theory of treatment: pituitary powder speeds up activity of the blood stream, stimulates metabolism (tissue change) and thus brings about quick healing of raw surfaces. Stomach pains disappeared in many cases at the end of four days, said the doctors, and within a month X-ray examinations showed that the ulcers had disappeared...