Word: ulcerous
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Anthony Eden, Britain's hard-toiling, far-traveling Foreign Secretary, came down with a duodenal ulcer, was ordered to take at least two weeks' "complete rest." While he is gone, his boss, Winston Churchill, and Minister of State Richard Law, will carry...
...national guard. It also voted immediate credits to increase the Syrian gendarmerie by 5,000 men. Both states abruptly broke off negotiations with France. Later there was bloody street fighting between French and Syrians in Hama. (In his Damascus home President Shukri el-Kuwatly, in bed with an intestinal ulcer, suffered a serious relapse and had to have blood transfusions...
...Stomach ulcer. For a number of months you have been suffering of gnawing and burning pains . . . especially violent 15 to 30 minutes after meals. Heavy foods . . . fatty meals and greasy foods do not agree with you. . . . The doctor will probably send you to hospital for observation. Very important: ... At the hospital, take a portion of dried blood powder every evening. The blood test in your stools will be positive. ¶ "Heart disease. Smoke 20 to 30 cigarets a day. But if you normally smoke as much, then you might double that number. . . . Take four [digitalis] tablets daily...
Alben Berkley showed up in the Senate with a big black patch over his left eye, explained that he had undergone treatment for an ulcer on the cornea. Said the Senate Majority Leader: "The doctor told me I should wear the patch to protect my eye against wind. Soooo-1 thought I ought to wear it to the Senate...
...never did much about Catherine. Her complaints disappeared after she left high school and took a clerical job in which she was no longer pushed beyond her intellectual limits. But at story's end Mrs. Q, cherishing her martyr's role, had still done nothing about her ulcer...