Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corpses, when eminently newsworthy, will continue to find a place in TIME.-ED. Stomach Pictures Sirs: Your account of the ''stomach camera" [TIME, April 16] was interesting, but incomplete. I fully expected the sequel in the following week's issue. Is not the success or failure of the contrivance as newsworthy...
...Gastro-Photor"-graphs taken inside the stomach of a suspected cancer sufferer turned out well, according to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. But what they showed, doctors refused to reveal.- ED. Fat "Cures...
Important thesis of a meeting of stomach-&-intestines specialists in Atlantic City last week was a warning against the dangers of purgation. Cried Dr. J. Russell Verbrycke Jr. of Washington: "The radio ballyhooing of purgatives disguised and camouflaged under fancy names will increase the number of perforated appendices...
...ordinary tablet contains 7.5 grains of bichloride of mercury. One grain is usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...
Ordinary treatment for such poisoning is gastric lavage, a purging of the stomach and intestines with quantities of milk and eggs. But it must be done quickly and at best one victim in four dies. Survivors often have permanently damaged kidneys. Dr. Rosenthal's antidote is sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, which changes the poison into less toxic mercurous compounds. It is administered through a stomach tube and intravenously. Dr. Rosenthal has saved every one of ten acutely poisoned humans, without appreciable kidney damage, hopes hospitals throughout the land will test his foil for suicides...