Word: pepticity
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...frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by removal of the thyroid, when the disease is in the thyroid group; by denervation of the adrenals when the disease is in other groups, while...
...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...
...medicine Drs. Rehfuss' and Marcil's discoveries have several diagnostic values. Persons giving a similar gastric response to bread and meat cannot be considered normal. Gastric digestion of meat is some-what impaired in heart and kidney diseases, in blood poisoning. In peptic ulcer, meat digestion is not impaired so far as concerns the stomach's ability to secrete gastric juices. If a patient fails to secrete the juices on both meat and bread diets, that is serious. Such failure is a sign of cancer of the stomach, of pernicious anemia, of delayed healing in lobar pneumonia...