Word: gastrically
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...reason why quinine is important is that it is a specific against malaria. It is useful also as a tonic, its bitterness causing the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...
...that retains decayed teeth, deposits on the teeth, diseased roots. Bacteria are starved by cleansing the mouth and the tissues are fed by stimulating the circulation which brushing gives."-Dr. Frederick Bricker of Hollywood, Calif. Results of unclean mouths: "Anemia, appendicitis, gastritis, nephritis, cystitis, myocarditis, iritis, encephalitis, gastric ulcers and a nasty disposition...
...moot point debated at the meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research at the same congress. Should chronic gastric ulcer be regarded as borderline cancer and operated upon accordingly or should it be treated as a simple ulcer? Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty, head of the cancer research division of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., thought it partook of the nature of cancer; 12.5 per cent of all chronic gastric ulcer cases observed at Rochester had died of cancer within 12 years. He was supported by Dr. James Ewing of New York, opposed by Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin, president...
...That definite mercurial poisoning was rare in dental patients, but that fatigue, headache, loss of appetite, soreness of the gums, gastric disturbances, all the early insidious manifestations of mercurial poisoning, were frequently encountered and in many instances completely removed with the removal of the fillings. Chemical analysis revealed the presence of dissolved mercury in the mouth...
...important to internal medicine as insulin, declared doctors at Northwestern University medical school last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas...