Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor calls for each patient about an hour after he signs in. He asks routine questions about nausea, runny noses, bowel movements. If the answers are convincing, the doctor puts on his relaxed, reassuring, professional manner, and tells each patient to go home, drink about ten glasses of water a day in sips, and take his temperature hourly. "If you're not better in five days," the doctor says, "come back again. Goodbye...
...advice: "About the routes to follow through life. Lighthearted on the boulevard, gay in the cafe, a good shot at the shoot. A flower delivered each morning to the door for the buttonhole. Put a smile on the face. Keep the collar worn loose at the throat. Move the bowel in the morning like the roar of a lion. Hum a lullaby while you pee. If you want to wear the toupee, which I do not suggest, always carry two. One for the white wine and one for the red. And when you drink the brandy you must of course...
Cleverly disguised, another piece of anti-war propaganda can be found in a chapter on bowel training...
...threatened by liver and pile-duct trouble, for which they must operate. They found that Kasperak's main bile duct had been blocked by internal bleeding. They removed the gall bladder and inserted a tube to keep the duct open, and thus keep bile flowing to the small bowel, and to permit drainage if necessary...
Enzyme Heip. About 50% of all gas victims suffer from either excessive or inadequate motility in the bowel. Lessened muscular activity is more likely to occur in elderly patients, whose food passes normally as far as the end of the small bowel, but then slows down in the flabby large bowel. The remedy in most of these cases, said Dr. Danhof, is bethanechol chloride, sold as Myocholine and Urecholine, to improve the bowel's muscle tone. In the overactive bowel, commonly associated with nervous conditions, frothing or foaming may occur. A useful remedy: dimethylpolysiloxane with pepsin (trade name: Phazyme...