Word: peptic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical researchers have been trying for years to prove that people with a particular blood type are especially prone to certain diseases. Example: Type O blood is supposed to run with a high rate of peptic ulcer. Wait, says a hardheaded Swiss, Geneva's Dr. Alexander Manuila, in the A.M.A. Journal. It may be true, but cannot be proved by available data-the claims have been based on inadequate studies and inaccurate statistics...
...Peptic ulcer victims, who have long been condemned by most physicians to insipid Sippy diets,* should throw away their lists of forbidden foods, feel free to eat fried fish and potatoes topped with catchup, if that happens to be what they like. So said the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart G. Wolf last week. Main thing, he told the American Academy of General Practice, is not to restrict what the ulcer patient eats but to do something positive about how often he eats-and that should be every two or three hours, counting the inevitable glass of milk...
There are a few human ills to which the average small animal is not heir; cats and dogs do not get tooth cavities, peptic ulcers, stomach cancer, measles or smallpox. But they get nearly every other human complaint, and a few of their own. Some of the commonest for which animals are now treated: arthritis or bursitis (by injections of hydrocortisone), adenoiditis, tonsillitis and undescended testicles (all treated by surgery); respiratory infections (antibiotics). The human-animal parallel is so close that if he has a difficult case many a vet will often talk it over with an M.D.; Dr. McBride...
Doctors have long fretted because peptic ulcer patients stubbornly ignored their warnings that sodium bicarbonate, the kitchen's ever-present help in time of heartburn, may cause alkali poisoning and dangerous gaseous distention of the stomach. But it remained for Glasgow's Dr. Andrew Greig Melrose to report, in the Scottish Medical Journal, a case of outright addiction to bicarb, an addiction so intense that the victim suffered severe withdrawal sickness when taken off the stuff...
...with marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk's son, Lee grew up in New Haven's Irish 17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity director in 1943, four times handily won election as alderman from his home ward before he took over city hall...