Word: pepticity
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...million. Earnings per share rose from 43? to $3.12. Schering was the second company to put cortisone on the market, has marketed new sulfa and penicillin products, holds a prominent place in the antihistamine field, has introduced several important new drugs, including "Dormison" (for insomnia), and "Prantal" (for peptic ulcers...
Ever since Boston's late great Surgeon Harvey Gushing showed that impulses from the brain, communicated through the nervous system to the digestive tract, could cause peptic ulcers, thousands of ulcer victims have had their vagus nerve severed by surgery to break the chain of cause & effect. It usually worked, but sometimes the ulcers recurred-presumably because mental stress had found a new route to the stomach, but how, nobody knew. Lately physicians have noticed that heavy doses of ACTH or cortisone may start old ulcers up again...
...Peptic ulcers are about four times as common among men as among women-nobody knows why.*Three University of Cincinnati psychiatrists decided that women ulcer patients were not getting enough attention, and set out to study what might have made a representative group of them sick...
...Deceptively mild: vague pains and nausea, far less severe than the symptoms of peptic ulcer...
Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker, knows about peptic ulcers; he has had several himself...