Word: jejunum
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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...
...normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus. If lack of the food to which the upper bowel is accustomed continues for more than a very few hours, those species of bacteria normally resident in the colon and cecum ascend into the ileum and jejunum and there proliferate giving rise to huge amounts of gas and to symptoms of toxemia from absorption...
...gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood through lymphatic structure called lacteals...
Peptic ulcers occur in the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. Those parts of the anatomy are to the surgeon what a washbowl, water trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum...