Word: fogelson
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...presented before the Chicago Medical Society last week. The stomach is lined with mucous membranes which exude a sticky substance called mucin. Mucin lubricates the stomach. It also combines with hydrochloric acid in the stomach and slows up the digestive action of pepsin. It occurred to Dr. Samuel Julian Fogelson & associates of Northwestern University that lack of sufficient mucin might have a great deal to do with ulcers...
...Fogelson surmised that if he fed patients great quantities of mucin, enough mucin would remain in their stomachs to coat the ulcers against the gastric juices. A surplus of mucin would also counteract the destructive juices. Dr. Fred Fenger of Armour & Co.'s research laboratory in organotherapeutics furnished a supply of mucin from hog stomachs. Dr. Fogelson tried this on dogs. The mucin worked...
When Dr. Fenger supplied hog mucin free from parasites, their eggs and germs, Dr. Fogelson experimented with twelve human ulcer patients. Two patients got drunk during treatments. But their sprees had no apparent effect on the treatment. Eventually all improved. Since then Dr. Fogelson and his Northwestern associates have successfully treated six dozen more cases of gastric ulcer with mucin...