Word: ulcerated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrinkles (rugae) cover the entire lining of the stomach. They all run parallel to the long axis of the stomach from the cardiac end where fresh food comes in to the pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
Most precious use so far for the Hampton technique is to discern an ulcer at the pyloric end of the stomach. That is the stomach's most active spot. Ulcers there, declares Director George Hoyt Bigelow of Massachusetts General Hospital, invariably turn into cancers. As with all cancers, if the surgeon can recognize them in their early stages, he can destroy them before they destroy his patient. Director Bigelow told the surgeons in Boston last week that his staff surgeons, by operating quickly, have prevented cancers in practically every pyloric ulcer Dr. Hampton has photographed for them...
...East investigated. He found that a scar of an old ulcer partly blocked the passageway from his patient's stomach into his intestines. This stricture caused food to remain unduly long in the stomach. The food fermented and formed, along with non-inflammable carbon dioxide, highly inflammable methane (which miners know as fire damp and farmers as marsh gas) and inflammable hydrogen disulfide, the gas which makes rotten eggs smell as they...
...prints, explained Dr. Falenks, would show humps as whitish and holes as dark blurs, thus reveal the first sign of cancer or ulcer. Philadelphia physicians withheld comment until the films should be developed. But everyone knows that the sooner a cancer is discovered and treated the better. Dr. Falenks was sure the Gastro-Photo marked a noteworthy advance in the incessant cancer...
...burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them of his doctoring days at sea. Therefore he was promptly put in charge of the Home's ''ulcer clinic," housed in a filthy, waterfront shack which had once been a morgue...