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Nine years ago, Nobelman Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute isolated the A substance, discovered that it was a crystalline carbohydrate. Last week, Drs. Witebsky & Klendshoj reported that they had isolated the B substance, also a starchy powder, from gastric juice and animal tissues...
These observations, with many others, appeared in Dr. Carlson's classic book, The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease (1916). On his theories other scientists worked out diets for infant feeding, gastric ulcers...
Services and Cures. Each patient arriving at Memorial is routed into one of eleven highly specialized departments, each with its own staff. Largest number find their way into the Head & Neck Service, next largest go into the Breast Service. Others: Gynecological (womb cancers, etc.), Gastric (stomach), Genitourinary, Bone and Medical (the leukemias and lymphatic cancers). Best cure records (between 60 and 70%) run in lip, skin, womb and breast cancers. Worst (under 10%) are in prostate gland and the leukemias...
...societies at Pennsylvania State College. It was intended to measure something that psychologists and doctors have long believed and all sufferers knew anyway-that distressing emotions cause increased amounts of hydrochloric acid to be poured out in the stomach, are thus linked to such stomach disorders as "heartburn," dyspepsia, gastric ulcer. The experimenters were Drs. Bela Mittelmann of New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Harold Wolff of Cornell Medical College. Not only did they find that emotion induced increase of stomach acid, but they also measured the increase...
...last two years the scientists have tried experimental urine injections on 60 patients, with "highly encouraging results." What the healing substance is, and where it is produced, the doctors haven't the faintest idea. But they do know that in small amounts it prevents ulcer growth without inhibiting gastric secretion. Prize patient is the experimenters' laboratory janitor, who was an ulcer man for almost a decade. Now, after a year of fortnightly injections, he has no pain, smokes cigars, eats red meat, drinks beer...