Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surgeons have been more successful with stomach ulcers. But in many cases, even if they are apparently cured without surgery and cause no pain, stomach ulcers secretly become cancerous. A man who has once suffered from a stomach ulcer should have himself examined frequently, no matter how well he feels...
...doctors are frankly pessimistic about both types of ulcer, for they arise from a nervous temperament. "Often the only really effective cure for an ulcer," they wrote, "would be an annuity." Great hope for ulcer victims lies in development of new chemicals which prevent the stomach from producing too much acid (TIME, April...
...facts from the Near East last week renewed an old medical quarrel. When Dr. Edward L. Turner of Nashville was practicing medicine in Beirut, some time ago, he noticed a curious thing: every year in the late autumn his stomach-ulcer patients got worse. Late autumn was the time of the orange harvest, and the people of Syria are great orange eaters. Hmm, said Dr. Turner...
...Turner knew, gastroenterologists do not agree on whether or not ulcer diets should contain orange juice. The juice contains citric acid only in harmless traces, but it might stimulate the stomach to produce a more than normal amount of hydrochloric acid. Because they feared hydrochloric acid, some doctors banned orange juice; others prescribed it to keep up the vitamin C intake. Ulcer patients without enough vitamin...
...subjects, took stomach samples after feeding. At other times they gave the same subjects equivalent amounts of 1) soft toast and tea; 2) rich milk. In all but two patients, the stomach acid averaged 75% higher after the orange juice than after the other diets. It looked as though ulcer patients should get their vitamin C from something else than orange juice. But the doctors were too cautious to say so definitely; they wanted still more facts...