Word: treatments
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Mucin. A new and apparently efficacious treatment for ulcers of the stomach and duodenum was presented before the Chicago Medical Society last week. The stomach is lined with mucous membranes which exude a sticky substance called mucin. Mucin lubricates the stomach. It also combines with hydrochloric acid in the stomach and slows up the digestive action of pepsin. It occurred to Dr. Samuel Julian Fogelson & associates of Northwestern University that lack of sufficient mucin might have a great deal to do with ulcers...
When Dr. Fenger supplied hog mucin free from parasites, their eggs and germs, Dr. Fogelson experimented with twelve human ulcer patients. Two patients got drunk during treatments. But their sprees had no apparent effect on the treatment. Eventually all improved. Since then Dr. Fogelson and his Northwestern associates have successfully treated six dozen more cases of gastric ulcer with mucin...
...treatment of the student delegation which went to Kentucky last week to investigate the condition of the miners affords a striking example of the way in which the country allows itself to be victimized by a confusion of ideas. In this case practically all the parties concerned in the affair have permitted the essential matter to be beclogged with irrelevancies. The original group, led by Theodore Dreiser and Waldo Frank, raised a cloud of publicity which centered almost exclusively on themselves, and which in the case of Dreiser was of an exceptionally shabby character. The air of ineffective dilettantism which...
...frequently make the water so rough that the waves rebound from the wall to a considerable distance. This condition has been found very unsatisfactory by boating and rowing interests, and these individuals and associations have been strongly desirous of an improvement in the basin as regards rowing conditions. The treatment of the new shoreline is expected to break up the waves and materially decrease the cross-chop existing at present...
While Wall Street knows that Senator Norbeck will do his best to throttle short sales, that Senator Carter Glass will aid and abet him, it hoped for judicial treatment from Connecticut's Senator Frederic Collin Walcott, onetime vice president in the banking house of Bonbright & Co. A close personal and political friend of the President's, Senator Walcott together with Senator James Couzens persuaded the Committee to investigate bulls as well as bears. "We are not seeking sensational-ism," he said. "And we are going about this in a sane way. There is no intention ... to seek legislation interfering with...