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...first doctors gave him plenty of advice about what not to eat, too little about what he should eat. This led to a sorry circle: "Eating became a worry, and worry generates hydrochloric acid, and hydrochloric acid induces ulcers." After his "third or fourth ulcer," he took dinner with Dr. Sara Jordan of Boston's Lahey Clinic, picked a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Jordan suggested meringue glac...
Alamadi's untouchables are treated first, caste Hindus second. Last Sunday, a 35-year-old mason named Sriramulu showed a foul-looking ulcer on his ankle, explained: "First there was an abscess. When it became very painful, I cut it with a penknife. This did not cure it. The village barber told me to apply lime and tobacco. It got worse and I tried a local remedy, covering up the sore with mud. That did not do any good, either." The student put on a sulfa dressing, told Sriramulu he was lucky not to have developed tetanus...
...public scowls over her recent divorce and rumored romances, said Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, were making that incipient ulcer kick up again. All her troubles started, sighed the 19-year-old ex-wife of Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton, because "I have a woman's body and a child's emotions." People had tried to link her name with men, she added, "ever since I got so I could wear a plunging neckline, and that was when...
Last week, Britain's ailing (duodenal ulcer) Prime Minister left his hospital bed only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...
Attlee in his reply tried to reduce Bevan's charges to the kind of issue on which Attlee's kind of Laborite feels most at home. From his bed at London's St. Mary's Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment for a duodenal ulcer, Attlee wrote: "I note you have extended the area of disagreement with your colleagues a long way beyond the specific matter to which, as I understood, you had taken objection. I had certainly gathered that if the proposal for imposing charges on dentures and spectacles were dropped, you would have been...