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...fruits formerly word not a common source of illness. Overripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that have been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation. Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...
...Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic suffers from the disease he cures in other people. In Dr. Alvarez' case the ailment is stomach ulcers. Last week, looking and feeling better than he has in years. Dr. Alvarez went to Atlantic City to attend a meeting of the American Gastro-Enterological Association, of which he was president in 1928 and which has a special lecture named in his honor...
...charlatan but by the ignorant but nearly honest layman seeking to earn an income by giving irrigations for sundry diseases at so much per treatment. Finally, and most unfortunate of all, there are those within the ranks of the medical profession itself, usually self-styled 'gastro-enterologists,' who have fitted, out elaborate suites of offices with one or more 'colonic lavagatories...
...infantile paralysis at all is a medical thought that has been trying to intrude itself for the past several weeks. Last week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There are no known aftereffects...
...Gastro-enteritis, called for lack of a better name intestinal grippe, was declared yesterday to have no connection with food served by the College in any of the Dining Halls. Dr. Means last night made public a letter from Dr. Gaylord W. Anderson, Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in which he called the malady "characteristic of the infections disseminated through the secretions of the upper respiratory tract...