Medicine: Gullet

When a prisoner stammered on the witness stand, the barristers of the old days looked at each other with a leer. "His guilt sticks in his gullet," their look said. If his guilt is all that sticks there, declared Dr. J. D. Osmond to the Radiological Society of North America in Atlantic City, last week, it will not harm him. But if it is his food, he may get cancer. Said Dr. Osmond: "Prolonged nervous strain and gulping of food, such as many American business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is...

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