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...scheduled programs and read abstracts of important papers to be delivered. He, and other medical reporters, also benefited from advance briefings in lay language by key scheduled speakers, and had a chance to cross-question them. And so, from California, Cant cabled four stories-a controversy over freezing the stomach to lessen ulcer pains, the results of a remarkable Red Chinese surgical operation, the use of a pump to relieve a diseased heart, and a bowel operation to lower the blood's content of cholesterol. These stories, edited and checked in New York, are on top of the week...
When they concentrated on their own work, the U.S. surgeons had a hot time over a cool, cool question: Is it a good thing to freeze the human stomach to suppress the nagging pain of duodenal ulcer and-hopefully-to heal the ulcer...
Trouble was, the Minneapolis researchers proclaimed that stomach freezing was so safe that it could be done in a doctor's office. Enterprising industry put the machines into production, and now nobody knows exactly how many of them are being used-and misused...
...when the University of Minnesota's aggressively pioneering professor of surgery, Owen H. Wangensteen, described a deceptively simple treatment for a notoriously stubborn illness. He and his colleagues get the patient to swallow a plastic tube with a balloon at the end. When the balloon is in the stomach, the doctors run frigid alcohol through it, at a temperature around -4° F. After an hour or so, the patient's stomach wall is presumably frozen. This freezing generally cuts down the stomach wall's ability to secrete hydrochloric acid, leaves less acid to spill into...
...Ulcers for Old. A few extremists have charged that stomach freezing is so dangerous that it can be lethal; they insist it should be stopped. Less certain about their opposition, other surgeons are nonetheless bothered by a few cases in which freezing has caused the appearance of a new ulcer in the stomach itself-more dangerous than the original ulcer in the duodenum that freezing was supposed to relieve...