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...commonest medical causes of discharge from the British Army is peptic ulcers. Most of these are old ulcers. The high incidence of the disease in the Army, said half a dozen doctors in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, is merely a reflection of its prevalence among civilians of military age. In the Army, ulcer sufferers cannot keep comfortable by following delicate diets, but must eat heavy food. Also, fresh fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, necessary for healing, were quite scarce last winter. That Army ulcers are aggravated by worry or fear, the doctors stoutly denied...
Regarding Captain James Roosevelt being called to active duty: My impression was that physical requirements were strict. Surely an officer with a peptic ulcer so severe it required surgery (gastroenterostomy, I believe) at Mayo's could not pass a physical...
...Captain Roosevelt's stomach ulcer operation was completely successful, and he is quite up to physical par for Navy duty. A Mayo physician who checked up in June 1939-nine months after the operation-found he had gained 12½ lb., pronounced him in excellent health, said: "The results of the operation have exceeded our most optimistic expectations...
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...