Word: ulcerates
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Student actors are rapidly approaching the ulcer stage, as both College dramatic groups hastily prepare for the opening dates of their spring presentations...
...Columbia University group headed by Dr. Karl Meyer announced an exciting new clue to the cause of stomach ulcers. The culprit: an enzyme called lysozyme. Lysozyme destroys the protective mucous that lines the stomach and lays the stomach wall open to erosion by acids and other digestive juices. Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, lysozyme is also present in tears and saliva, is found in abnormal amounts in the stomachs of ulcer patients, seems to be produced in extra-large quantities during emotional upsets. The researchers hope that a cure for ulcers may be found in chemicals...
...There was a new clue to a mystery that has puzzled ulcer specialists-why do four times as many men as women have ulcers? Examining the stomach of a 21-year-old Negro girl through a surgical hole in the stomach wall (made for feeding the patient after she had accidentally swallowed some lye), Drs. Russell J. Crider and Shepard M. Walker of Washington University found that the girl's stomach was quieter and secreted less gastric juice when she was angry or upset than when she was in normally good spirits. This is just the reverse...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
Maloney's , "most significant single fact": at the present time, "none of the New Yorker people except Ross has an ulcer...