Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heart and Arthritis. A pain above the stomach is sometimes diagnosed as a symptom of angina pectoris, peptic ulcer or gastritis, when the ailment actually is arthritis. If the pain does not come from fast walking, stair-climbing or anger, heart trouble can be ruled out; if there are no symptoms connected with eating, ulcers also are eliminated...
...Ulcer and Pseudo-Ulcer. Pseudo-ulcer is a fairly common condition. Many sup posed symptoms of stomach ulcer merely indicate an overly irritable digestive tract (which in many patients may be thrown out of kilter just by a drink of cold water...
...doctors found out some new things about ulcers by producing a small ulcer on a bit of exposed stomach membrane. Mucus protects healthy stomach walls from being digested by their own juices, but this area did not have much mucus, and an ulcer developed when the doctors merely dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further...
Left. By the late Carl Meeker, 67, Los Angeles railroad fireman: his stomach; to science. Ballyhooed after a 1917 ulcer operation as the possessor of a transplanted goat's stomach, he had the last laugh on medicos, who found that their legacy was only human after...
...Washa know, Joe? Ain't sheen you yearsh. Howzsh yer ulcer? Have a drink." The foregoing bit of tipsy doodle is an awfully good facsimile of typical convesation between two Old Blue Grads, when a quarter of a century has passed and the first graduating class of the Yale University School of Alcohol Studies convenes, with glasses raised on sly, for a reunion...