Word: pepsin
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...steel tables. When Cloaca is on exhibit, an attendant climbs the metal staircase at one end twice a day to offer up a good solid meal to the machine. The food is "chewed" by a garbage disposal before passing on to the first beaker, where it is squirted with pepsin and stirred, then on to the following beakers and treatment with pancreatin, hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices. The product finally goes through a separator and the remaining solids are extruded on to a revolving plate...
...flabby large bowel. The remedy in most of these cases, said Dr. Danhof, is bethanechol chloride, sold as Myocholine and Urecholine, to improve the bowel's muscle tone. In the overactive bowel, commonly associated with nervous conditions, frothing or foaming may occur. A useful remedy: dimethylpolysiloxane with pepsin (trade name: Phazyme), which both improves digestion and combats gas formation. Some patients need enzyme medication to ensure more thorough digestion, while others should have anticholinergic drugs (like those commonly prescribed for ulcer) to slow down muscular activity in the intestines...
...almost everything in an animal but its squeal. Most of its processes, from skinning to tinning, are now controlled by buttons, and new byproducts have led Armour in promising directions. From bone meal, it has moved strongly into all types of fertilizer. Tentative steps into Pharmaceuticals with pepsin from hog stomachs have led to a line of non-meat products that includes tranquilizers and cosmetics. Excursions into soapmaking to utilize fatty acids produced Dial soap, got Armour so interested in the grocery end that it now even makes pizza pie. Diversified Armour has been reorganized into seven divisions...
Nickel Knack. Several Los Angeles industrial plants are installing the first of 1,000 vending machines to sell nickel-sized tablets called "Kevo-Etts." Four of the tablets, which contain sea kelp, soya, dextrose, yeast and pepsin, are said by their inventor to supply all the nourishment, vitamins and minerals of a complete meal. Price: 5? for four...
Fellow biochemists were sure he would have some news last week. He did. He has been working with enzymes, the chemical substances found in the body and in plants, that act like catalysts (e.g., pepsin in the stomach). Previously, he had isolated eight of eleven enzymes that cause fermentation, then devoted his time to studying just one of them, an enzyme he called zymohexase. He found that the blood of rats with cancer contains more zymohexase than that of normal rats, and that the larger the tumor, the greater the amount of the enzyme...