Word: grimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keith S. Grimson, professor of surgery at Duke University, had relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced that he and two associates had succeeded-with a drug called banthine...
...stomach to secrete too much acid, contract too energetically and spill its contents too fast-perhaps within an hour. The acid irritates an old ulcer or starts a new one. Cutting the vagus nerve is one surgical device to slow down the contractions and the acid output. Dr. Grimson combined this operation with another which short-circuited much of the ulcer area...
...their research to avoid surgery, Grimson and associates found an answer in banthine, a new synthetic drug which they had been testing on high blood pressure. Banthine, taken by mouth in tablet form four to six times a day, has the same effect as cutting the vagus nerve; it slows down stomach contractions so that food is retained there for as long as six hours, and it reduces the flow of corrosive acid...
...Grimson wants to test banthine in detail for another six months. Then, if it still looks good, he will ask the Food & Drug Administration to release it for general...
Varsity center forwarded Roy. Heisler dissolved a 2-2 tie in the second overtime period at West Point yesterday afternoon, and gave the Grimson soccer squad a 3 to 2 upset victory over Army when he blasted in a bad-angle kick from 30 feet...