Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symptoms he experienced while parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...
...sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin, the body cannot supply normal amounts to the stomach, where in the form of hydrochloric acid it is needed for digestion. Nor can the kidneys filter from the blood an adequate amount of salt for the urine. As a result the urine is painfully alkaline...
...made spots on her shining white apron. It was very hot, and Alice's head began to hurt her the way it did when she stayed shut up too long at school. Lifting a small cloth-covered book from her lap, Alice turned over, and lay on her stomach, dangling her feet above...
Many syphilologists give their patients bichloride of mercury to drink, carefully watching that the poison does not destroy the stomach, intestines or kidneys. Such syphilologists believe that potable mercury destroys spirochetes more effectively than mercury injections. Reasoning by analogy, they ask pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
...three years old when I did that thing," said he. "Yes, I was lying on my little fat stomach on the carpet of mother's parlor when I painted the damned picture. It was with my first box of water colors. It was funny as hell...