Word: gastric
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Patients who have had part of their stomachs removed for gastric ulcer, along with victims of ulcerative colitis, diabetes, and a variety of abdominal disorders, including acute intestinal infections, are all especially liable to lac-tase-deficiency difficulties. Now that the results of research in lactase function are being drawn to doctors' attention for use in their daily practice, the A.M.A. Journal has been moved to rhapsodize editorially: "What a joy to the clinician to find the arcane skills of research scientists directed to such matters as bloating, flatulence, cramps and diarrhea!" The Journal adds: "Some patients will...
...much of its capacity for producing hydrochloric acid, thus reducing the amount of the corrosive juice that flows into the duodenum, the next chamber down the digestive tract. If acid production should bounce back, he said, the stomach could safely be refrozen. (Whether the technique should be used for gastric ulcers, in the stomach itself, is a separate, unresolved question...
...auto accident). They report that 50 have minimal ulcer pain remaining, and 13 have none-a satisfactory result rate of only 37%. No fewer than 71 of the patients still suffer pain, 37 more eventually had to have part of their stomachs removed, and one died from a gastric-ulcer perforation...
Spare the Knife. Dr. Wangensteen's faith in his technique remains unshaken. In a group of 701 of his patients, many of whom had repeat freezing, there was not one death. There have been some serious complications, including two perforating gastric ulcers. But of 71 recent patients, most of them followed for 18 months, only five have needed surgery, while 26 others still have intermittent ulcer pain. The satisfactory result rate is 51 % . One reason for the difference between his record and Hitchcock's, said Dr. Wangensteen, is that his team now uses liquid that is supercooled...
Furthermore, Dr. Davison confirms the diagnosis of other historians that Mary suffered from an acutely active gastric ulcer. He also concludes that in terms of modern psychiatry she was a medically certifiable hysteric. He blames her neurosis on her troubled childhood in the first instance, and unusual height. As a child, she fell into sobbing tantrums in times of stress. In later life, she always got sicker when her fortunes ebbed-in one crisis she lost the use of her legs for some weeks. If she was a hysteric, Author Davison considers it highly unlikely that Mary was driven...