Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of a good thing makes Jack a dull, ulcer-ridden boy. After three weeks of concentrated intellectuality exams begin to seem anticlimatic. Dining halls fill up instantly at 12:00 and 5:30 with studiers looking for lowgrade oral satisfactions to break the tedium. In the spring escapists can lounge along the Charles; in January the only alternatives are to check into the Brattle or turn to gin, either dealt or sipped. If the University wants to indulge us, it ought to cut a week out of reading and exam periods and add it to intersession, when the relaxing...
Died. Dr. Sidney Haas, 94, Manhattan pediatrician who in the early 1920s found cures for two of childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...
...tosses in the scriptural citations of which Lyndon is so fond. Better than any other staffer, he knows Johnson's mercurial moods, manages to assuage the boss with well-reasoned argument, never shouts or panics. Yet such self-control comes at a price: Moyers suffers from a chronic ulcer...
...Johnson had one kidney stone removed by manipulation and another by surgery. It is the place to which Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the '20s, went when she was failing in the '40s, and to which Prince Feisal, now Premier of Saudi Arabia, went for an ulcer checkup...
Since many ulcer and recurrent indigestion patients refuse to eat often enough, or do not get complete relief even when they do, doctors still prescribe antacids. But nowadays these are nearly all of the nonsystemic kind-unlike bicarb, they are never absorbed into the bloodstream and are far safer. The body processes them more slowly, so they do not give such quick relief. The most familiar, in the form of milk of magnesia, is magnesium hydroxide, and this is the main ingredient in many brand-name preparations. Since it has laxative properties, some manufacturers combine it with aluminum hydroxide, which...