Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urine for Ulcers. Women rarely have peptic ulcers. On a hunch that female hormones confer natural immunity, Dr. David Jacob Sandweiss, Physiologist M. H. F. Friedman and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University made a purified extract of the urine of normal, healthy women, injected it under the skin of dogs in whom they had produced peptic ulcers. In several weeks the dogs recovered. Within the last two years the scientists have tried experimental urine injections on 60 patients, with "highly encouraging results." What the healing substance is, and where it is produced, the doctors haven...
...miracles. Saint Gemma Galgani. "the Passion Flower of Lucca," every Friday for two years underwent the Stigmata-the five wounds in hands, feet and side which Christ suffered on the Cross. Present at her canonization last week were the two who had benefited by her miracles: Elisa Scarpelli, whose ulcers vanished instantly on May 14, 1938 after prayers to the saint, and Natale Scarpelli. The open leg ulcer he had from 1918 to 1935 healed overnight when a relic of the saint was placed inside the wound's dressing...