Word: ulcerating
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...Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...
...Chief cause of ulcers is excess production of hydrochloric acid, which erodes the lining of the stomach. (This abnormal flow of acid is usually produced by constant worrying, emotional upsets.) Standard medical treatment for ulcers consists of many small meals of bland, semiliquid foods based on milk & cream. Thus the stomach, frequently filled, has small chance to consume itself, and the ulcer, like other sores, gradually heals. But this treatment, said Dr. Winkelstein, does not go far enough. Between meals the acid continues its destructive work, especially at night, time of greatest acid flow in ulcer patients...
...Digestive disorders are a serious problem in the Army. . . . 12.5% of all cases evacuated from the B.E.F. in France [in World War II] had a diagnosis of gastric or duodenal [intestinal] disease. . . . Whenever a diagnosis of ulcer has been established, the soldier should be invalided from the Army and returned to civilian life in the shortest possible time. . . . In civilian practice patients with gastric or duodenal ulcer obtain rapid relief of symptoms from rest in bed and diet, but in my experience such symptomatic relief is rarely encountered in military practice...
Edsel Ford, 48, was operated on in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital for a stomach ulcer. His condition was reported "satisfactory...
...system. Last week Drs. Charles Henry Rammelkamp Jr. and Chester Scott Keefer of the Boston University School of Medicine reported a hopeful experiment with gramicidin. Instead of injecting it into the blood stream they trickled a few drops of gramicidin right on the wounds of several patients with ulcers and skin diseases. One patient who had a leg ulcer for 15 years was cured in three weeks. The others recovered even more rapidly. But the doctors made it clear that the dangers of gramicidin have to be tested more completely. It is still available only to research workers, is made...