Word: pepticity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop another ulcer soon after the operation. Especially is this so if the man is of Jewish ancestry. The Jew seems to be particularly subject to a severe type of recurrent ulcer. Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, Mayo internist, makes these observations in a thoroughgoing review of peptic ulcer, published last week in the American Journal of Surgery. For more than 50 years able men have been struggling with peptic ulcer...
...Peptic ulcers occur in the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. Those parts of the anatomy are to the surgeon what a washbowl, water trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum...