Medicine: Ulcer Pacifier

Is there any sure way, short of surgery, to quiet a peptic ulcer? New York University's China-born Dr. Frank Wang Co-Tui called in the press last week to say that there is, and he has it. He has been doing some experiments on hydrolysates, the new concentrated, predigested proteins, now being used abroad to build up war-starved people. He had fed the hydrolysates to several ulcer patients as preparation for operations, and was surprised when the patients began to get well without surgery.

Dr. Co thus accidentally put two & two together. It was already known that ulcer patients need protein to...

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