Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peptic ulcer victims, who have long been condemned by most physicians to insipid Sippy diets,* should throw away their lists of forbidden foods, feel free to eat fried fish and potatoes topped with catchup, if that happens to be what they like. So said the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart G. Wolf last week. Main thing, he told the American Academy of General Practice, is not to restrict what the ulcer patient eats but to do something positive about how often he eats-and that should be every two or three hours, counting the inevitable glass of milk...
Internist Wolf (who studied the stomach's workings for years by looking inside a patient who had to be fed through a hole in his abdominal wall) believes that "merely restricting the diet has never been known to be of real value." A major exception: cases of bleeding ulcers. Patients allowed to eat what they want have done at least as well as the rigidly controlled, if not better. All ulcer patients react too strongly to stress. "So if a patient falls off the milk wagon, his guilt feelings may cause the gastric glands to secrete more acid...
...skin disease) localized around the eyes, which has caused opaque corneas; some form of blindness in which bright light is painful (the figure's hat is pulled down over his eyes); atrophy of the eyeballs, probably caused by glaucoma or panophthalmia; corneal leukoma (corneas thickened from an ulcer, wound or inflammation); and enucleation (surgical removal of eyes...
...everything out, the thoughtful gift is obvious: cuff links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three...
...commercial, farmed out subcontracts for the gruesome gewgaws to a few ex-patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...