Word: pepticity
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Actor Alfred Lunt, 55, had to call off eight Milwaukee performances of the touring I Know My Love to nurse an acute peptic ulcer...
Physicians have failed to find a satisfactory way of permanently curing peptic (stomach) ulcers, said the University of California's Theodore Althausen. The standard treatment (bland diet) temporarily cures 90% of the cases; but 10% to 36% develop ulcers again within six months after the "cure," from 46% to 93% within five years...
...Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...
...Scotland, during the depression of the 1930s, gastritis increased by 120%, nervous debility by 100%. In the U.S., he says, social disintegration is proceeding so fast that even Negroes, once almost immune, are getting peptic ulcers; from 1936 to 1945, the incidence of ulcers among whites increased 44%, among Negroes...
After a vagus operation, ulcers heal rapidly, the stomach quiets down and the patient leaves the hospital within twelve days. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgeon Francis D. Moore reported that vagotomy is especially effective for young or middle-aged men with a long history of peptic ulcers. Nonetheless, Drs. Dragstedt, Moore, et al., advise the operation only after diet and other treatments have failed. For nervous stomachs and the "tensions and strains of modern life," says Dr. Dragstedt, preventive psychoanalysis may be better than nerve-cutting...