Medicine: Sensitive Stomach

Like many another medical specialist, Dr. Walter 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.

At last week's meeting Dr. Alvarez, speaking from his personal experiences, told stomach specialists to beware of foods which harm their patients in strange ways. "Since I found...

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