Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 65, ailing for six weeks with an ulcer, was ordered to cut down his smoking to two pipes a day. Forthwith he sent out for the biggest pipe that could be bought in London...
Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee was ordered by doctors to cut his engagements to the minimum. His ailment: "an early duodenal ulcer...
...looked serious to everyone except Finance Minister René Mayer, in whose department it started, and who had other things to worry about. When the strikers presented their demands to Mayer, he did nothing at all about it. In fact, he left for his Normandy home to nurse his ulcer...
...coldly comforting thought: Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin found only two cases of the same person with both hyperthyroidism and cardiospasm, only one with both high blood pressure and cardiospasm, none of cardiospasm plus colonic disorders, none of stomach ulcer plus nonspecific ulcerative colitis...
...Instead of simply festering, as in Brideshead, like an old, old staphylococcus, my dear, in a duodenal ulcer...