Word: ulcerating
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...last week Dr. Dragstedt's operation, now tested by many another surgeon, had stirred plenty of interest among ulcer specialists. Because peptic ulcers may recur in five-year cycles, Dr. Dragstedt and other investigators were not yet ready to pronounce the three-year-old operation a permanent cure. But so far, there had been no relapse after a vagus operation...
...there any sure way, short of surgery, to quiet a peptic ulcer? New York University's China-born Dr. Frank Wang Co-Tui called in the press last week to say that there is, and he has it. He has been doing some experiments on hydrolysates, the new concentrated, predigested proteins, now being used abroad to build up war-starved people. He had fed the hydrolysates to several ulcer patients as preparation for operations, and was surprised when the patients began to get well without surgery...
...thus accidentally put two & two together. It was already known that ulcer patients need protein to use up their excess stomach acids and that many ulcer patients are low in blood protein, which contributes to their run-down condition...
Results are sometimes as good-but rarely so dramatic-on the conventional Sippy diet of milk, cream, bland and gooey foods and acid-neutralizing powders. But the Sippy diet does not do much for blood protein. Both diets, being extreme, have a good psychological effect on ulcer patients, which doctors think is one of the most important factors in treatment. Simple proof: ulcer patients, generally a moody, brooding lot, have shown marked improvement after inoculations with distilled water...
...Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash and thunder of a battle cruiser opening fire...