Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything," boasts the black-haired little bartender. "What have you got?" To the client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want...
...member of the old regime). In 1905, when the process was finally resumed, authorities insisted that at least one more miracle would be necessary. In 1932 occurred what was regarded as an authentic miracle: French Nun Marta Fourrier, apparently on the verge of death from a duodenal ulcer, was suddenly cured when someone at her bedside called upon Jeanne de Valois for help. Last week the cause of Jeanne de Valois reached almost the end of the long road. In the Vatican's red damask Consistorial Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope...
Actor Alfred Lunt, 55, had to call off eight Milwaukee performances of the touring I Know My Love to nurse an acute peptic ulcer...
...past ten years, Dr. Garnett Cheney of Stanford University's School of Medicine has been studying an anti-ulcer factor he tentatively calls vitamin U (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). Tests on patients have been encouraging; their ulcers got better when Dr. Cheney fed them on foods containing vitamin U, but he could not prove that U did the trick...
Last week, at the centennial celebration of Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Ivy reported his findings to date. He has used the hormone (his own chemists scrape it from the small intestines of freshly killed hogs) on 46 ulcer patients. Before treatment, they averaged a little over three months between ulcers. After treatment, their average symptom-free period rose to a little over ten months; two patients have gone four years, nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure...