Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually with nausea and belching, has the same causes as heartburn. An antacid tablet may help. The catch is that the layman usually cannot tell the difference between this and a medically significant form of indigestion. This inflammation of the stomach (gastritis) is part of the pattern of peptic ulcer. Then the trouble is not a simple backup of the evening's Scotch, steak and potato but a too-free flow of hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices from the stomach walls into the stomach itself and the duodenum. The excess juices find a vulnerable spot in the stomach...
Whether caused by an ulcer or by the occasional food upheaval, indigestion has led to a variety of diet fads and home remedies. The faddists include finicky types who do not eat certain foods, especially fruits, "because they're too acid." Or they do eat mildly acid citrus fruits because they have convinced themselves that orange juice, for example, produces an alkaline reaction in the stomach. Some drinkers avoid highballs with a soda mix, claiming that the carbon dioxide that turns the stuff fizzy also turns their stomachs acid. Contrariwise, others take a glass of plain soda to settle...
...Nearly all physicians now avoid sodium bicarbonate. The most up-to-date thinkers among them are coming to the conclusion that the best neutralizer for excess stomach acid is nature's neutralizer-food. They prescribe small meals about every three hours. It matters little, they say, what the ulcer patient eats-he may have steak and French fries with catchup and a cucumber salad with vinegar dressing-provided only that he eats a little at a time and often. The tide has turned against the insipid Sippy diet of milk and light cream: doctors are beginning to find that...
Predictably, there were instant rumors that Ev Dirksen would become Goldwater's vice-presidential running mate. But Ev is 68 years old and ailing with an ulcer. More important, he loves his role in the Senate, and only hours after the Illinois caucus, Dirksen himself scotched the stories that he would like to be Vice President...
February, just before the House passed the bill, Dirksen entered Washington's Sibley Memorial Hospital for treatment of a bleeding ulcer, took along his own dog-eared copy of the measure and began to rewrite it. He kept at it during a week's recuperation at Broad Run Farm, his redwood-and-field-stone ranch house in suburban Sterling...