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When Dr. Richardson got to know them, Catherine had come to the New York Hospital clinic for a heart murmur. He later found that Mrs. Q was bothered by a gastric ulcer, that Mr. Q habitually vomited sometimes 20 times a night, that Agnes had a well-developed case of anorexia nervosa (nervous rejection of food). Both parents had very bad teeth...
Mother Knows Worst. Investigation soon revealed that Mrs. Q was the dominant character and the root of the family troubles. She used her ulcer and her bad teeth to help maintain her rule. One of her favorite subjects was an older daughter, Laura, who had died at eight of a bad heart. Laura had been a paragon of beauty and intelligence and, in Mrs. Q's opinion, Catherine resembled her. Result: Catherine, whose intelligence was mediocre, overworked at school to get good marks, and developed imitative heart trouble. In contrast, Mrs. Q considered Agnes "dumb," the symbol...
...Army's Hammond General Hospital in Modesto, Calif., where ulcer cases are common, he has tried out his ideas on 31 patients who were making no progress on conservative ulcer diets. He gave them additional eggs, olive oil, fresh greens, peanut butter, pills of hog stomach and grass-enough to bring daily diets up to a whopping 4,200 calories. The results, as announced in last week's Military Surgeon: pains of 25 patients stopped in about a week; 17 patients gained an average ten pounds; 22 of the patients recovered completely...
...From the purely physical standpoint the Pacific campaigns have been infinitely worse for the private soldier. There he's had to live in the heat and filth of the jungle, worrying about malaria and the fact that a scratch may develop into a tropical ulcer...
...About 97% of ulcer cases worry about losing the approval of their mothers or some mother substitute (such as wife, older brothers...