PICTURES OF PAIN
The sinking feeling in tho pit of the stomach after, a prolonged fast is not the Tesult of an overwrought imagination, but clue to a very real contraction of the stomach, and hungry children cry with actual pain. Dr. F. T. Rogers, a physiologist in America, has reached these conclusions after a starvation experiment on himself. Previous researches had 'shown . that if a rubber balloon was introduced into the stom-n-'i with a pressure gauge attached, the periodical knawing pangs were accompanied by a rise in pressure, showing that the balloon wns being squeezed by a contraction of the stomach. Dr. Rogers has been able to take X-ray photographs of tho air in tho balloon, and these reveal that during the hunger convulsions the stomach is frequently drawn up right under the ribs. These violent contractions aro at once al.layed when food or oven water is takon, and arc more severe in children - than in adults.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 6
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158PICTURES OF PAIN Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 6
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