Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Last week a University of Oregon team argued that the Wangensteen method does not always freeze the stomach wall, and that when it does, it may do irreparable damage. The Oregon spokesman, Dr. E. Douglas McSweeney Jr., said that supercooling to a temperature just below freezing point might be more effective than the Wangensteen technique. They have tried this by putting a medical antifreeze, Dimethyl Sulfoxide, into the stomach or nearby arteries and cooling...