Word: pepticity
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...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...