Word: pepticity
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...woman suffered such severe internal bleeding after taking Liefcort that she had to have an operation; pneumonia developed as a complication, and she died. Canadian arthritis experts report that men taking Liefcort have developed enlarged breasts, while women have grown beards. In both sexes there is a danger that peptic ulcers will start to bleed...
Most of the nation's 2,500,000 peptic ulcer victims get a measure of relief from bland diets and from tablets and emulsions that neutralize excess stomach acid. But there are tens of thousands who have been forced to submit to more drastic treatment and have had part of their stomachs cut out. In the future, such radical operations may not be necessary. Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and his inventive research team at the University of Minnesota Hospitals have devised a method of avoiding operations (gastrectomies) simply by giving the stomach a short, quick dose of deep freezing...
...checked both the flow of digestive juices and bleeding. Why not deepen the chilling to the freezing stage, knock out the stomach's acid factory more completely, and give the patient relief for months or years? The technique should then be a boon to the almost 90% of peptic ulcer cases whose ulcers are in the duodenum (the next lower unit of the digestive tract): cutting down the flow of corrosive juices at their source in the stomach itself would keep them from eating into any part of the lower intestinal wall...
...French cuisine of the New Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...
...Peptic ulcers (sometimes in the stomach but usually in the duodenum) are not as often thought, just a fashionable ailment of high-pressure, upper-crust professional people, a British researcher reported last week. Comparing occupations with illnesses in 280,000 clinical records of more than 100 general practitioners. Dr. William P. D. Logan found that in class-conscious England's Social Class I, consisting mainly of professional workers, the men's ulcer rate is only 48% of the national average. But in the lowest-paid, unskilled Social Class V, the rate is 116%. In a fluid society...