Word: pepticity
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...last week Dr. Dragstedt's operation, now tested by many another surgeon, had stirred plenty of interest among ulcer specialists. Because peptic ulcers may recur in five-year cycles, Dr. Dragstedt and other investigators were not yet ready to pronounce the three-year-old operation a permanent cure. But so far, there had been no relapse after a vagus operation...
...there any sure way, short of surgery, to quiet a peptic ulcer? New York University's China-born Dr. Frank Wang Co-Tui called in the press last week to say that there is, and he has it. He has been doing some experiments on hydrolysates, the new concentrated, predigested proteins, now being used abroad to build up war-starved people. He had fed the hydrolysates to several ulcer patients as preparation for operations, and was surprised when the patients began to get well without surgery...
Heart and Arthritis. A pain above the stomach is sometimes diagnosed as a symptom of angina pectoris, peptic ulcer or gastritis, when the ailment actually is arthritis. If the pain does not come from fast walking, stair-climbing or anger, heart trouble can be ruled out; if there are no symptoms connected with eating, ulcers also are eliminated...
...commonest medical causes of discharge from the British Army is peptic ulcers. Most of these are old ulcers. The high incidence of the disease in the Army, said half a dozen doctors in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, is merely a reflection of its prevalence among civilians of military age. In the Army, ulcer sufferers cannot keep comfortable by following delicate diets, but must eat heavy food. Also, fresh fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, necessary for healing, were quite scarce last winter. That Army ulcers are aggravated by worry or fear, the doctors stoutly denied...
Regarding Captain James Roosevelt being called to active duty: My impression was that physical requirements were strict. Surely an officer with a peptic ulcer so severe it required surgery (gastroenterostomy, I believe) at Mayo's could not pass a physical...