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...elderly women have gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
Wanted: A Stomach. More than 100 years ago, on Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, a doctor named William Beaumont tried in vain to close the wound of a Canadian trapper who had accidentally been shot in the stomach. The edges of the hole healed, and Alexis St. Martin, the trapper, was not uncomfortable; if he plugged the wound, he could eat. The failure of Dr. Beaumont to heal that wound made him one of the great figures in medical history. For, by putting a tube in the wound, he observed the movements of St. Martin's gut, discovered...
Keynote speaker was a noted surgeon, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville. The division of labor, he said, is clear. Any ulcers which do not heal with rest and special diets must be dealt with by surgeons. As for surgery, he went on, most experts believe it does little good merely to snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn...
...jumped Physician Albert Frederick Ruger Andresen of Brooklyn. Since there is really no medical treatment for ulcers, said he with brilliant logic, there are no medical failures. Some ulcers heal of themselves. Both physicians and surgeons worry too much about stomach acids, he continued, instead of considering a patient's temperament and general condition. And operation on desperate cases which have not been doctored up "is little short of murder...
Recognized danger signals are: unusual lumps, bleeding from any body opening, sores that do not heal, persistent indigestion and weight loss, growth changes in moles or warts...