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Word: rehfuss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...meat stimulates almost twice as much gastric juices as does a quarter-pound of bread or other carbohydrates, and is correspondingly better for normal digestion. Doctors, dietitians and gastronomers in general did not know that fact until last week when they received a leaflet from Drs. Martin E. Rehfuss* and George H. Marcil of Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meat for Digestion | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meat for Digestion | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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