Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leave Us Alone." Who extended the invitation, how far the Russians mean to go in accepting it, and how irreversible the present course is, remain to be seen. In Cairo, where he hustled off early last week to ease his ulcer and talk to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, a moderate rightist but also something of a weakling, vehemently denied that his country was turning Communist. The U.S., said El Kuwatly, "should leave us alone." But El Kuwatly's own attempt to keep a check on the rise...
Doctors have long fretted because peptic ulcer patients stubbornly ignored their warnings that sodium bicarbonate, the kitchen's ever-present help in time of heartburn, may cause alkali poisoning and dangerous gaseous distention of the stomach. But it remained for Glasgow's Dr. Andrew Greig Melrose to report, in the Scottish Medical Journal, a case of outright addiction to bicarb, an addiction so intense that the victim suffered severe withdrawal sickness when taken off the stuff...
...patient, a male nurse, was only 29 when a doctor told him to take sodium bicarbonate routinely for his duodenal ulcer. He did so with a vengeance: even when he had no pain, he took 2 lbs. a week, managed to consume almost 1½ tons in 27 years, until he came to Dr. Melrose's attention. Then, in hospital because of a stroke, he was denied bicarbonate. "This at once produced a violent emotional reaction," reported Dr. Melrose, "and he became restless, aggressive and difficult to handle." The doctors decided to taper him off, gave him successively smaller...
Oddly enough, Dr. Melrose found that the patient's ulcer had little to do with his addiction. Main reason: he enjoyed the distention of his stomach by gas (carbon dioxide generated by the action of digestive hydrochloric acid on the bicarbonate) and the resultant belching...
...E.D.T.) audience just why millions have been getting up at 7 a.m. five days a week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy ways, his oleaginous grin, and a no-ulcer format thickly populated with bosomy fiddlers. Although his corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since the old cow had twins"), Dean is, in the words of an associate, "photogenic, amiable, happy-go-lucky and a nipple feeder-that is, he knows little outside...