Word: gastrically
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...more spots may become ulcerated, the mucosa eroded. The erosion may bare the stomach wall. Nothing then protects the wall from the corroding action of hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Unless the process is halted, the gastric juices digest a hole right through the stomach...
...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...
...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...
Died. Alfred S. Austrian, 61, Chicago lawyer; of a gastric ailment; in Chicago. Learned, eloquent, he had successfully represented Armour & Co. in defense of its acquisition of Morris & Co. which the U. S. Government contended was a violation of the Clayton Anti-trust Act. Among his other clients were Lumberman James Stanley Joyce (divorced by Peggy); the late William Wrigley Jr.'; Erlanger theatre interests; White Sox baseball club; the Chicago Tribune...
According to him: "Whiskey stimulates the flow of gastric juices, it takes the edge off mental worries; it is a panacea which, if used in moderation, the human race cannot well get on without. It is far more efficacious than wine or beer; and, what's more, there's no use talking about wine or beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize...