Word: pepsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snuff for Ulcers. Peptic ulcers are erosions of the wall of the stomach or duodenum caused by excessive secretion of pepsin, hydrochloric acid and other powerful digestive juices. Dr. Matthew Hill Metz and Robert W. Lackey, Ph.D., of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas, reported that they had healed 55 out of 60 peptic ulcers by giving the patients two-thirds of a grain of powder, ground" from dried pituitary glands of cattle, to sniff four times a day. Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions. Inhalation resulted in slower absorption...
...disease known as tobacco mosaic, ground up their wizened leaves, extracted their juices. This liquid was highly infectious to normal plants. But the deadly principle could not be cultured like a bacterium. Dr. Stanley found that it could be digested - that is, destroyed - by certain enzymes such as pepsin. This was important. Pepsin digests only proteins. Finally, using an ammonium compound which nudges proteins out of solution, Dr. Stanley isolated the virus as white crystals. When diluted 100,000,000 times, the crystals were still able to infect plants...
Physiologist John Raymond Murlin of the University of Rochester announced that he and assistants have just perfected a compound of insulin and hexylresorcinol which may be swallowed as a tablet. It is effective because the hexylresorcinol neutralizes pepsin and acid, and emulsifies fat. Thus there remains nothing to impede insulin's absorption by the diabetic's sugar-laden body...
...dribbling down into the stalk from the tip across the wound gap. The fact that a special substance, instead of a vague irritant, was involved was first clearly demonstrated by Paál of Hungary. In 1925 Seubert of Germany found plant-stimulating substances outside of plants-in saliva, pepsin, malt extract, diastase. These substances were christened "auxins" by Kögl of Holland's Utrecht University, where much of the pioneer work on them was done. In 1928 a tall, dark young man named Fritz Warmolt Went, who began his botanical career at Utrecht under the tutelage...
Last week investigators of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research believed that they were on the heels of the final answer to the great virus question: Are viruses living entities like germs but too small to be seen and identified by means of microscopes? Or are they enzymes, like pepsin, which stimulate biochemical changes in the body? Or are they simply complex nonliving chemicals which cause particular trouble to the body...