Word: ulcerating
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...turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet's ferocious bullying eventually goads him into self-respect...
...estimated 1,000 in Manhattan alone. Admittedly the operation is a life-saver in many cases of gangrene, angina pectoris, hypertension. But some sympathectomies may make men sterile. And because a sympathectomy reduces pain, some doctors consider it insidiously dangerous, e.g., a patient could have a perforating ulcer without pain. The experts agree that sympathectomy, like the other nerve-cutting operations, is getting out of hand...
Convention delegates showed plenty of interest in vagotomy, the nerve-cutting operation developed by Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26), which is currently popular among ulcer specialists. But even that new hope was dampened by Dr. Russell S. Boles of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Said he: "While it is too soon to form conclusions about this operation, it is not too soon to . . . protest against . . . a mass experiment on human beings that is fraught with potentially serious and permanent disabilities." Dr. Boles's warning: the vagus operation, which partially paralyzes the stomach, may produce diarrhea...
...Boles, who takes a dim view of all current treatments, including stomach surgery, suggested that the best ulcer patients can do is to stick to the doctor's prescription as strictly as diabetics and tuberculosis patients. "In the light of our present knowledge," said he, "I believe we should regard ulcer as an incurable disease. It may be held in abeyance, however, by cultivating a new manner of living. With some, this is easy; with others who are involved in a squirrel-cage existence, it is difficult, if not impossible...
...want to hire a man who is going to produce," declared the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Charles W. Mayo, "the easiest way to make sure of that is to get one who has a duodenal ulcer." He's apt to be on his toes, he explained...