Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaitskell spoke, Bevan lurked in the shadows behind the Speaker's chair, hands in pockets, pouting and mumbling to himself over public defeat. When the Chancellor had finished, Bevan strode angrily from the House, drove to the hospital where Clement Attlee is recuperating from duodenal ulcer, let it be known that he would not give up the fight for a completely free health service...
Copyright Infringed? Attlee, strained by weeks of stormy parliamentary sessions, is entering a hospital over the Easter recess for a checkup on his 1948 duodenal ulcer, which lately has given signs of returning...
...reported in jail, including ten members of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, four Communist district secretaries and a former ambassador. Said Deputy Party Secretary Gustav Bares: "We are making new discoveries. The Central Committee is determined to exterminate to the last drop this ugly and stinking ulcer." On one day last week, the Communist Party paper Rude Prdvo published four columns of letters demanding "speedy condemnation" for Clementis and his accomplices. It looked as if the Reds were working toward a show trial in Prague...
...months after that, Elsie, under still another name, was in the Royal Sussex Hospital persuading doctors that she had a bleeding ulcer. An operation was performed to determine her trouble, but before the surgeons were satisfied Elsie left the hospital. Less than two months later, she was back at Croydon, "doubled up in agony" from abdominal pain...
Parke, Davis, in its publicity release, tells how the new drug was used on 23 ulcer patients who had not responded to conventional treatment. Twenty-two of them were wholly free of ulcer craters in three to six weeks. The 23rd responded too, but relapsed after discontinuing the pills. The proof is still thin, even for a newcomer drug. Kutrol will not win lasting pharmaceutical stardom until it has scored many more hits in the stomachs of ulcermen...