Word: gastrically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operated on a tumor of the brain. He had performed the same operation success fully many times. This patient died. Dr. Gushing was puzzled. Autopsy showed extraordinary cracks and ulcers of the stomach. Three times during subsequent years, among thousands of successful cerebrotomies, did the same fatal conjunction of gastric ulcers and diencephalic tumors occur. Was there causal relation ship? Dr. Gushing has decided affirmatively...
Additional validity of the Gushing hypothesis lay in the fact that the cause of gastric ulcers has been unknown. Simple acute gastric ulcer occurs more often among young anemic women, chronic ulcer in men. Especially prone to the ailment are housemaids and shoemakers. Ulcers may occur after a blow in the region of the stomach. Anemia predisposes, especially in women. The disease may be found in connection with diseases of the heart, arteries, liver, gall-bladder and appendix. The present tendency is to charge infections, especially of the teeth and tonsils, as the probable cause of stomach ulcers. A deeper...
Stomach Cancer. Ammonia, uric acid, urea and aminoacid have recently been discovered in stomach juices. Certainly an increase of those substances is associated with cancer, and perhaps with other diseases. Dr. Lay Martin of Johns Hopkins is trying to find out, hoping that the proportions of those substances in gastric juices may help early diagnosis of stomach cancer. For some undetermined reasons cancer of the digestive tract has become more frequent recently, observed Dr. Thomas Richardson Brown of Baltimore...
Died. Alfonso Maria Cardinal Mistrangelo, 78, Archbishop of Florence; of gastric poisoning; in Florence, Italy...