Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convention delegates showed plenty of interest in vagotomy, the nerve-cutting operation developed by Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26), which is currently popular among ulcer specialists. But even that new hope was dampened by Dr. Russell S. Boles of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Said he: "While it is too soon to form conclusions about this operation, it is not too soon to . . . protest against . . . a mass experiment on human beings that is fraught with potentially serious and permanent disabilities." Dr. Boles's warning: the vagus operation, which partially paralyzes the stomach, may produce diarrhea...
...want to hire a man who is going to produce," declared the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Charles W. Mayo, "the easiest way to make sure of that is to get one who has a duodenal ulcer." He's apt to be on his toes, he explained...
...boys last week paid his boss a brief but enormous tribute: "Nobody at ABC has an ulcer...
...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...
Fields for Research. Dr. Ivy's colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...