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...lethal for small children, and 100 or more in the U.S. die from aspirin poisoning in an average year. Thousands more, beguiled by candy coatings and flavors, are made so deathly ill that they have to have their stomachs pumped out. Aspirin irritates the lining of the stomach, and ulcer victims often find the effects of the medicine worse than the headache they are trying to cure. In extreme cases, they suffer internal bleeding or their ulcers perforate. As with all drugs, a few people are abnormally sensitive to aspirin; even a normal dose may cause dizziness, nausea, a skin...
Though the Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is effective in many cases, most surgeons and all patients hate it. It is inserted through the nose, which is most uncomfortable, and the inflated balloon itself is painful. If left in place too long, the balloon can become ulcer-producing, so it must be deflated after about 24 hours. The patient cannot swallow saliva or other secretions, so a cut is usually made into the windpipe for drainage. Understandably, the tube is used only in case of real emergencies...
Court physicians claimed that the King was suffering from an old ulcer, but two eminent British cancer specialists were flown from London to take part in the operation. The surgery was performed in an emergency operating room set up in Tatoi palace, 15 miles north of Athens; a helicopter waited on the palace lawn to fly the King to a hospital if necessary. After 4 hours in the operating room, the five-man surgical team pronounced the operation a success, but Greece was gloomy...
...James L. Jones, 25-year-old mother of a small child, was in a Washington, D.C., hospital dying of a bleeding ulcer. Doctors were convinced that a blood transfusion was necessary to save her life. But the hospital needed her consent or her husband's, and both refused to say yes; as Jehovah's Witnesses, they believed that transfusions were contrary to the will...
...flat-roofed headquarters building, the electronic countdown clock (Fair staffers call it "the Ulcer Machine") was ticking off the seconds, minutes, hours and days before the long-promised morning of Wednesday, April 22. With 14 weeks to go, it had finally become apparent to everyone that the deadline would be met. Finally, that is, to everyone but Fair President Moses: he never had any doubts. "All that remains," says he, "is to pitch in, let nothing slow our pace, and throw open the doors to those who said at the beginning that we couldn't make...