Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Siddon Langford of Manhattan. Contrary to the beliefs of most parents and pediatricians, thumb-sucking in infants is a harmless pleasure. No scientist has ever proved, said Dr. Langford, talking to the American Academy of Pediatrics last week, that thumb-sucking 1) introduces germs into tonsils and stomach, 2) stimulates harmful sexual activity, or 3) causes receding jaws and buckteeth. Thumb-sucking may push milk teeth slightly out of line, but if it is stopped before permanent teeth appear, no faces are spoiled. Parents who try to break nursing babies of the habit only get them riled, which...
Chief cause of peptic ulcers, which afflict about 330,000 U. S. citizens (mostly business and professional men), is oversecretion of harsh gastric juice. Gastric juice, when abnormally acid, erodes the delicate lining of the stomach, produces inflamed spots near its lower end. To experimenters who have long been seeking an easily available chemical which would check gastric secretion in ulcer patients, Physiologists John Stephens Gray, Elfie Wieczorowski and famed Researcher Andrew Conway Ivy of Chicago's Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts...
...from farmers, cooperatives, etc., and distributes it to the needy through 22,647 outlets in charge of local and State relief agencies. Many are inefficient, careless, hard to deal with, and FSCC is far from satisfied with its own system. So are retailers, who complain that the farm-to-stomach route cuts them out of much business...
...Washington. Mr. Gray's first job, in 1883, was swabbing spittoons in a backwoods railroad depot. In 1937 his wife, Harriette Flora Gray, was elected "Typical American Mother." Last September a son, Dr. Howard K. Gray, surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, operated on James Roosevelt for a stomach ulcer (TIME...
...Valparaiso, Ind., a relief investigator turned in his reports on applicants: Excerpts: 1) Man with ulster on his stomach. 2) Couple breaking up home, friends helping. 3) Man has diabetes and is insulated twice a day. 4) Man recently had operation, but is able to hold any position he assumes. 5) Man hit by automobile-speaks broken English...