Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ulcers may be caused by infections. Occasionally an ulcer follows a blow upon the abdomen or an extensive superficial burn. Cobblers and anemic, dyspeptic maidservants are for some reason prone to develop ulcers...
...last caught on to Peter. He keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted...
Died. Albert Earl Clift, 61, president since 1929 of Central of Georgia Railway and Ocean Steamship Co., onetime (1924-29) vice president of Illinois Central Railroad; after an operation for stomach ulcer; in Savannah...
Additional validity of the Gushing hypothesis lay in the fact that the cause of gastric ulcers has been unknown. Simple acute gastric ulcer occurs more often among young anemic women, chronic ulcer in men. Especially prone to the ailment are housemaids and shoemakers. Ulcers may occur after a blow in the region of the stomach. Anemia predisposes, especially in women. The disease may be found in connection with diseases of the heart, arteries, liver, gall-bladder and appendix. The present tendency is to charge infections, especially of the teeth and tonsils, as the probable cause of stomach ulcers. A deeper...
...discovery, result of pure biological research, was put to test in a Philadelphia hospital. It was found that bed sores, ulcers, when treated with a simple sulphur compound, healed quickly. Only a few days, stated Dr. Hammett, were necessary to cure an ulcer on a Philadelphia bootlegger's foot. Brilliant are the possibilities suggested by this theory. Possibly, predicted some, it may solve the most mysterious of life processes...