Word: gastrically
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Overstimulated Stomachs. Dr. Dragstedt made his discovery while studying the secretion of gastric juices in the digestive system. Ulcers result from the secretion of abnormally large amounts of gastric acid. The normal stimulus for gastric secretions is eating. What puzzled Dr. Dragstedt was the fact that ulcer patients secrete large amounts between meals, especially at night, without any obvious stimulus...
Whalers like these too. They shovel them out of whales' stomachs, ready pickled in gastric juices...
Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised...
...performed the first operation for ovarian tumor on a brave, unanesthetized woman who lived 31 years thereafter. In Mackinac, Mich., peering through a hole in the stomach wall of a half-breed Indian named Alexis St. Martin, Dr. William Beaumont made his momentous discoveries about the action of the gastric juices...
Penicillin, the miraculous curer of human disease, has long suffered serious ills of its own. Because it is destroyed by the stomach's gastric juices, doctors have had to administer it by injection. Because it is excreted so rapidly by the kidneys, the injections have had to be repeated every two hours. Result: for the patient, hospitalization and pain; for the doctor, a time-consuming nuisance...