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...possible cure for stomach ulcers was last week announced by an eminent physiologist, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern University. Most doctors hold that ulcers are caused by an overactive stomach, which constantly gushes acid, erodes its own walls. For years Dr. Ivy has tried to curb this acid formation. To the members of the American Physiological Society meeting in Chicago last week he described a hormone which seems to turn the trick: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
...test the hormone, Dr. Ivy and his workers operated on 30 dogs, cutting off a snip of their small intestine directly below the stomach, and tacking the stomach on again to the second section of the intestine. Such short-circuited dogs usually develop ulcers and die within a few months. Dr. Ivy gave ten of them injections of enterogastrone, three times a day, for seven months. Results: 16 of the untreated dogs (80%) developed ulcers; only one of the treated dogs (10%) was stricken...
Concluded Dr. Ivy: "Enterogastrone is an effective agent in the prevention of stomach ulcers and it may have a practical application in treating this condition in patients. We have not tried it on humans because our preparations are not sufficiently refined, as yet, for human trial...
When Morris Sheppard was a schoolboy in Wheatville, Tex., he studied physiology. One illustration in the class textbook was a study of a drunkard's stomach, done in passionate colors. He never got over it, and last week he died a teetotaler...
...Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years...