Word: ulcerous
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...incidental effects of pregnancy is that it provides almost certain relief from common ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. In a study of 70,000 pregnant women, Detroit's Dr. David J. Sandweiss found only one case of active ulcers during gestation. Said one of his patients: "My husband tells me I ought to stay in the family way the whole time, and then my ulcer wouldn't bother...
Though the effect has been known for 20 years or more, the cause is still a mystery. Best guess: a hormone does the trick. Hormone secretions are radically altered during pregnancy, with one ovarian secretion predominating. When the previous hormone balance is restored after childbirth, ulcer symptoms usually recur. Even this temporary relief is not available to most victims, for probably...
...below 41 (on whom information could be obtained) dying from this cause during 1946 and 1947 in Cincinnati were cigarette smokers; that abnormal addiction to tobacco smoking is present to a highly significant degree in male coronary victims of all ages; that these facts and similar ones for peptic ulcer are most likely based on the well-known toxicity of nicotine for nerve cells of the automatic (involuntary) nervous system controlling these organs...
...everything," boasts the black-haired little bartender. "What have you got?" To the client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want...
...member of the old regime). In 1905, when the process was finally resumed, authorities insisted that at least one more miracle would be necessary. In 1932 occurred what was regarded as an authentic miracle: French Nun Marta Fourrier, apparently on the verge of death from a duodenal ulcer, was suddenly cured when someone at her bedside called upon Jeanne de Valois for help. Last week the cause of Jeanne de Valois reached almost the end of the long road. In the Vatican's red damask Consistorial Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope...