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Show New Treatment Of Stomach Ulcer For many years the treatment of peptic ulcer ulcer of the stomach and ulcer of the small intestine into which stomach empties has been small meals taken often and an alkali al-kali powder to overcome the excess acid digestive juice in the stomach. This is known as the Sippy treatment treat-ment It will come as a surprise to ulcer patients and to many physicians also to learn that a series of 41 cases has been successfully treated by a different method. Drs. George F. Dick and C. Wesley Eisele, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, state that the treating of stomach and duodenal ulcers (peptic ulcer) will progress satisfactorily satisfac-torily without the attempted neutralization neutral-ization of acidity with alkalies. "Under hourly treatment with milk and cream without the use of alkalies, the speed of healing of peptic pep-tic ulcers compares favorably with that under other methods of treatment. treat-ment. Such treatment brought about (1) the prompt disappearance of symptoms and the complete comfort com-fort of the patient, (2) the disappearance disap-pearance of blood from the stool when blood was present, and (3) the disappearance of the cavity of the ulcer as shown by X-rays." These physicians state that while the present treatment of overcoming overcom-ing the excess acid stomach juice by the use of alkalies has been accepted ac-cepted as the "best" treatment nevertheless nev-ertheless the fact that different alkalies al-kalies are being used from time to time for peptic ulcer treatment shows that alkali treatment is not altogether satisfactory. "In their series of 41 cases, seven were suffering from stomach ulcer and 34 from duodenal or intestinal ulcer. X-ray studies were used to show the progress of the treatment. Seventy per cent of the 'cavities' of duodenal ulcers disappeared within with-in 75 days. Complete relief of symptoms symp-toms occurred in nearly all cases before the cavity was completely healed. In 31 cases all symptoms were controlled within one week." The treatments milk and cream every hour without use of alkalies. |