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...duodenum caused by excessive secretion of pepsin, hydrochloric acid and other powerful digestive juices. Dr. Matthew Hill Metz and Robert W. Lackey, Ph.D., of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas, reported that they had healed 55 out of 60 peptic ulcers by giving the patients two-thirds of a grain of powder, ground" from dried pituitary glands of cattle, to sniff four times a day. Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions. Inhalation resulted in slower absorption, no unfavorable reactions...
Theory of treatment: pituitary powder speeds up activity of the blood stream, stimulates metabolism (tissue change) and thus brings about quick healing of raw surfaces. Stomach pains disappeared in many cases at the end of four days, said the doctors, and within a month X-ray examinations showed that the ulcers had disappeared...
...POWDER RIVER-Struthers Burt-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Powder River rises in central Wyoming, fed by the snows of the Big Horn Mountains. North it flows, joined by Salt Creek, Dugout Creek, Pumpkin Creek, Wild Horse Creek and Crazy Woman Creek. Bitterly alkaline, mushy with quicksand, flanked for 100 miles by badlands, Powder River is nothing compared with such rushing beauties as the Feather, the Snake, the Salmon...
...drains the Powder River grass country where Western history was made. It watered the great ranch of the English-owned Powder River Cattle Co., which once ran 60,000 head of cattle. Along its valley rode 55 raiders from the big ranches of the South who came to fight the Johnson County...