Word: ulcerations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles L. Lockwood of the Gorgas Memorial Institute, explained in Chicago last week, there is ever the possibility of stomach ulcer, of appendicitis, of obstructed intestines, cases in which cathartics are a positive menace, cases in which only a surgeon or skilled physician should intervene. In cases of stomach ulcer the stomach wall is thinned or even already perforated. The carthartic induces the stomach to contract and the partly digested food oozes into the peritoneal cavity. Fatal peritonitis results. In intestinal obstruction the intestines may be blocked by the caked products of digestion or they may be blocked...
...came last week to Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier. At it the dying one looked with composure, with a clear mind, a peaceful mind. For days he knew he had no further earthly hopes. Three weeks before, under a local anesthetic, he had been operated upon for a stomach ulcer; and he had watched the operation with the understanding gained in his early days as a medical student. He had seemed to rally. But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed he could...
Died. General Michael Frunze, 40, ruthless Soviet commander, exterminator of many Tsarists, sometime assistant and since last January successor to Leon Trotzky in the post of Soviet War Commissar (Minister); at Moscow, after two operations for intestinal ulcer. The Soviet Government gave a funeral "second in size and impressiveness only to that of Nikolai Lenin...
Last week, having held office some eight months, he died. He suffered an attack of what appeared to be indigestion, later diagnosed as duodenal ulcer. Medical advice was cabled from Washington. He seemed to be recovering, when an intestinal hemorrhage brought about his death...
...General debility, weakened heart action, bronchial tuberculosis and . . . gastric ulcer...