Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meyer Naide of the University of Pennsylvania last week told* of an experimental treatment which worked on nine out of 15 patients: as a chronic ulcer does not get enough blood from inside, he supplied it from outside by a spray of blood drawn from the patient or dried blood plasma diluted with only one fourth the usual amount of water. This poultice dried to form a clot over the ulcer; treatments were repeated as needed to retain the scab. One or two applications relieved pain; the ulcers which healed required from one to 20 treatments...
...Streptococci from unpasteurized milk have caused epidemics of scarlet fever, septic sore throat, dysentery, epidemic ulcer in children, have been involved in infantile paralysis...
...Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...
...Chief cause of ulcers is excess production of hydrochloric acid, which erodes the lining of the stomach. (This abnormal flow of acid is usually produced by constant worrying, emotional upsets.) Standard medical treatment for ulcers consists of many small meals of bland, semiliquid foods based on milk & cream. Thus the stomach, frequently filled, has small chance to consume itself, and the ulcer, like other sores, gradually heals. But this treatment, said Dr. Winkelstein, does not go far enough. Between meals the acid continues its destructive work, especially at night, time of greatest acid flow in ulcer patients...
...Digestive disorders are a serious problem in the Army. . . . 12.5% of all cases evacuated from the B.E.F. in France [in World War II] had a diagnosis of gastric or duodenal [intestinal] disease. . . . Whenever a diagnosis of ulcer has been established, the soldier should be invalided from the Army and returned to civilian life in the shortest possible time. . . . In civilian practice patients with gastric or duodenal ulcer obtain rapid relief of symptoms from rest in bed and diet, but in my experience such symptomatic relief is rarely encountered in military practice...