Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Start about the same process today, and, if you're the least bit more controversial than the chess club, you've probably bought yourself an ulcer. You've got to get approved by the Student Council and by the Dean's Office. You've got to keep on file at the Dean's Office a complete list of members and an up-to-date version of your constitution. Every one of your members must be a member of Harvard University, and half of them must be students at Harvard College. You can't undertake any activity outside the limits...
...Ulcer sufferers seem to have an overactive vagus nerve. When it is working too hard, the nerve causes the stomach to secrete too much acid, contract too energetically and spill its contents too fast-perhaps within an hour. The acid irritates an old ulcer or starts a new one. Cutting the vagus nerve is one surgical device to slow down the contractions and the acid output. Dr. Grimson combined this operation with another which short-circuited much of the ulcer area...
...first 26 patients who got the treatment were relieved of pain; X rays showed that their ulcers had healed. Most were able to discard their pappy ulcer diets and between-meal snacks, but they must take banthine regularly; it is a palliative rather than a cure...
...Parnell Thomas, he told the doctors. The onetime fire-eating chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee was just in no shape, he insisted, to stand trial in federal court on charges that he padded his congressional payroll. Ever since he had been operated on for peptic ulcer, he said, he had suffered from depression, sometimes wept, had phobias about seeing people, driving a car and going to the barbershop...
...wouldn't cost Mr. Fairless a nickel of his own to agree that every steelworker have a mansion, a yacht and an ulcer . . . The bill for the welfare plan will finally be passed along to that great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have...