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Word: pepsin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digestion: Painful Bubbles | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Packing It Away | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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