Word: ulcered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absent newsmen and politicos had gathered elsewhere, in Room 331 of the Morrison Hotel. There smart, ulcer-ridden little Jake Arvey, the new boss of the old Kelly machine, was introducing the Democrats' candidate to succeed Ed Kelly as mayor: a husky businessman, Martin Kennelly...
...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...
Overstimulated Stomachs. Dr. Dragstedt made his discovery while studying the secretion of gastric juices in the digestive system. Ulcers result from the secretion of abnormally large amounts of gastric acid. The normal stimulus for gastric secretions is eating. What puzzled Dr. Dragstedt was the fact that ulcer patients secrete large amounts between meals, especially at night, without any obvious stimulus...
...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...