Word: gastroenterologist
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Good news for the millions of U.S. sufferers from stomach ulcers was reported to the American Medical Association last week. The best way to treat severe ulcers, according to Manhattan's famed gastroenterologist Asher Winkelstein, is to drip warm milk into a patient's stomach every minute of the day & night. A conclusive report on this continuous drip treatment, used with great success on hundreds of Mt. Sinai Hospital patients, was finally presented last week after ten years of experiment, by Dr. Winkelstein and his colleagues, Dr. Albert Cornell, Physiologist Franklin Hollander...
...show (see below). It also elected a new president (term: one year). Surgeon Frank Howard Lahey, "the Mayo of Boston," is famed for his scientific achievements. In 1922, Dr. Lahey started a small clinic on Commonwealth Avenue, with Drs. Lincoln Fleetford Sise and Sara Murray Jordan, outstanding woman gastroenterologist (specialist in intestinal disorders) in the U. S. Dr. Lahey specialized in clipping thyroids. So dexterous was his technique that within 17 years he and his associates had performed over 15,000 operations, lost only 100 patients...