Word: ulcerous
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Johnson even acknowledged that he can be difficult to deal with. On his first race for the Senate in 1948, L.B.J. related, a reporter visiting campaign headquarters took note of all the milk-drinking ulcer sufferers on the staff, wondered why Johnson had no ulcers. "Well," explained Campaign Manager John Connally, now Governor of Texas, "he is just in the business of giving them, not getting them." Maybe, allowed the President reflectively, it was his turn at last to be on the receiving...
...defy the myth on almost every count. His suits usually come from Sears Roebuck (a client), he dislikes luncheons with clients ("I haven't the time, it gives me indigestion, and I don't think it's very profitable."), and he appears to be a long way from that ulcer as he consumes whiskey and cashews with relish. As a man whose business is selling, Olgivy seems to have decided that the best way to sell himself is to be himself, and he can at times be disarmingly honest. When he removes his jacket in an overcrowded room to reveal...
...individuals will be made gravely ill. Best example, said Dr. Moser, is the tendency-rare in the general U.S. population-to a blood-destroying anemia that can develop after taking aspirin or phenacetin (compounded together in the familiar APC tablets), some sulfonamides, and drugs for the relief of peptic ulcer...
...Bleeding Ulcers. High on the list of things that irritated him, he said, was a comment in the Saturday Evening Post by Columnist Stewart Alsop: "The President's passion to know everything and to control everything makes him an immensely difficult man to work for, which surely accounts in part for the bleeding ulcer of the ablest of his aides, Bill Moyers." Said Fleming: "I would suggest it would not have been hard for Stewart Alsop to know, as I knew well before I went to the White House, that Bill Moyers' grandfather died of an ulcer...
Patients who have had part of their stomachs removed for gastric ulcer, along with victims of ulcerative colitis, diabetes, and a variety of abdominal disorders, including acute intestinal infections, are all especially liable to lac-tase-deficiency difficulties. Now that the results of research in lactase function are being drawn to doctors' attention for use in their daily practice, the A.M.A. Journal has been moved to rhapsodize editorially: "What a joy to the clinician to find the arcane skills of research scientists directed to such matters as bloating, flatulence, cramps and diarrhea!" The Journal adds: "Some patients will...