Word: ulcerating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk is for his ulcer, he explains, the Scotch for him), was on the set next...
...Peptic ulcer is far from being an exclusive ailment of high-tension executives, as popularly believed in the U.S. Elsewhere in the world, it shows up with surprising frequency among peoples as far removed as possible from the life patterns of Madison Avenue and La Salle Street. Other diseases present similar paradoxes. Last week, at hearings on a bill to set up a $50-million-a-year National Institute of International Medical Research, Senators heard Dr. Peter D. Comanduras of Medico, a voluntary aid group, cite these examples...
...Peptic ulcer is common among the illiterate people of India, who are not bothered by decision making, clock watching, jangling telephones or traffic jams...
...Visited John Foster Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital, also dropped by to see his ileitis surgeon. Major General Leonard Heaton, who was abed with an ulcer, and Lieut. General Floyd Parks, retired commander of the Second Army, suffering a bone disease...
...Patients whose lives are threatened by bleeding ulcers and who may need massive blood transfusions can be saved by a chilling technique worked out by the University of Minnesota's Department of Surgery, reported its chief, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. The patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average...