Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...commonest medical causes of discharge from the British Army is peptic ulcers. Most of these are old ulcers. The high incidence of the disease in the Army, said half a dozen doctors in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, is merely a reflection of its prevalence among civilians of military age. In the Army, ulcer sufferers cannot keep comfortable by following delicate diets, but must eat heavy food. Also, fresh fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, necessary for healing, were quite scarce last winter. That Army ulcers are aggravated by worry or fear, the doctors stoutly denied...
Regarding Captain James Roosevelt being called to active duty: My impression was that physical requirements were strict. Surely an officer with a peptic ulcer so severe it required surgery (gastroenterostomy, I believe) at Mayo's could not pass a physical...
...Captain Roosevelt's stomach ulcer operation was completely successful, and he is quite up to physical par for Navy duty. A Mayo physician who checked up in June 1939-nine months after the operation-found he had gained 12½ lb., pronounced him in excellent health, said: "The results of the operation have exceeded our most optimistic expectations...