Word: pepsin
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...Connell to handle. An eye-ear-nose-&-throat specialist, he found that he could often dissolve cataracts by injecting them with a filtrate of a liquid produced by certain germs bred on cataracts extracted from blind persons. That nitrate contained enzymes similar to. although not related to, pepsin, which in the stomach dissolves every meal...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...
...ulcers of the stomach and duodenum was presented before the Chicago Medical Society last week. The stomach is lined with mucous membranes which exude a sticky substance called mucin. Mucin lubricates the stomach. It also combines with hydrochloric acid in the stomach and slows up the digestive action of pepsin. It occurred to Dr. Samuel Julian Fogelson & associates of Northwestern University that lack of sufficient mucin might have a great deal to do with ulcers...
...more spots may become ulcerated, the mucosa eroded. The erosion may bare the stomach wall. Nothing then protects the wall from the corroding action of hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Unless the process is halted, the gastric juices digest a hole right through the stomach...
...Drug, Inc. subsidiaries. For, after bringing United Drug and Sterling products together, Mr. Liggett quickly bought the companies which make Life Savers candies, Three-in-One oil, Ipana toothpaste, Sal Hepatica. Ingram's shaving cream, Fletcher's Castoria, Dr. W. B. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin & Herb Laxative Compound, Andrews Liver Salts...