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...that one of his three daughters was about to give birth. Sutherland seemed forgiving of his captors, allowing, "I don't think they really thoroughly understand what they were doing to us, putting those chains back on our legs every day." Although he appeared healthy, the discovery of an ulcer at week's end delayed his return...
While the vast majority of chiropractic patients are treated for back, neck and shoulder complaints as well as minor headaches, some 10% seek help for organic diseases of all sorts. Can manipulation help them? The chiropractic literature is replete with examples of astonishing cures of ulcers, hypertension, childhood asthma, blindness and even paraplegia. But individual case histories prove nothing, and organized studies are few and far between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether...
Nowhere is the President's new openness more evident than in his self- conscious attitude toward his health. Instead of "keeping it all in," as he did with a bleeding ulcer in 1960, Bush provides an almost daily commentary on his sleeping and eating habits, weight, morale and energy level. Though some might think it politically wiser to omit any mention of presidential maladies or medications, particularly with Dan Quayle as Vice President, Bush apparently does not. At a horseshoe throw last week on the South Lawn, Bush appeared in a T shirt featuring the milking end of a dead...
...They were so stressed there that the guy I stayed with had already developed an ulcer. He bought a fish tank to calm him down. That definitely gave me a negative impression of the school," he said...
...just any prescription. The caller insisted on Nicorette, a drug intended to help people stop smoking. How did he find out about it? From an advertisement. When Buenaflor suggested that the drug might not be appropriate for prolonged use, since the patient had a heart condition and an ulcer, the man hung up and took his "business" elsewhere. Concludes Buenaflor: "The pressure to use these drugs is incredible...