Word: jejunum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured cabbage juice, served a glass at a time, five times a day. Five of the patients had ulcers in the stomach, seven in the duodenum, one in both the stomach and the jejunum (part of the small intestine just below the duodenum). They all got better quickly, according to X-ray evidence. Average healing time was 10.4 days for the duodenal ulcers (compared with 37 days for a control group treated by milk, alkalis and the conventional bland diet), 7.3 days...