Word: mittelmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old man was shocked when a fellow worker dropped dead of a heart attack. He began to have "heartburn" himself. He did not confide his trouble to his wife, and it grew worse. He went to the hospital. When Drs. Mittelmann & Wolff did their experiment on him, his stomach acid rose...
...intended to measure something that psychologists and doctors have long believed and all sufferers knew anyway-that distressing emotions cause increased amounts of hydrochloric acid to be poured out in the stomach, are thus linked to such stomach disorders as "heartburn," dyspepsia, gastric ulcer. The experimenters were Drs. Bela Mittelmann of New York Post-Graduate Hospital and Harold Wolff of Cornell Medical College. Not only did they find that emotion induced increase of stomach acid, but they also measured the increase...
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