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2 unusual facts about Ulcer


Inclusion body rhinitis

Signs in pregnant sows include reproductive failure, genital ulceration and agalactia.

Ulcer

Stress ulcer, located anywhere within the stomach and proximal duodenum


Arterial insufficiency ulcer

A special type of ischemic ulcer developing in duodenum after severe burns is called Curling's ulcer.

Banana powder

In 1984, scientists from India were able to extract part of the "antiulcer compounds" found in banana powder, which ended up creating a type of powder that was "300 times more active" in preventing ulcers in the stomach.

Charles Lowder

A few weeks later Lowder died, probably of a perforated ulcer at Zell am See, Austria during a climbing holiday.

Complex-toothed flying squirrel

In Traditional Chinese medicine the feces of the squirrel, known as the Five Spirits Grease (五靈脂, wǔ líng zhī) are believed to help against ulcer in the duodenum.

Helen Fairchild

X-rays revealed that a large gastric ulcer was obstructing her pylorus.

John Lykoudis

Basil Rigas, Efstathios D. Papavasassiliou, "John Lykoudis. The general practitioner in Greece who in 1958 discovered the etiology of, and a treatment for, peptic ulcer disease", in Barry Marshall (editor), Helicobacter Pioneers.

Jungle rot

Tropical ulcer (also known as "Jungle rot", and "Aden ulcer", "Malabar ulcer", and "Tropical phagedena")

Lloyd Floyd

Lloyd Floyd was a recurring actor in the television series The Adventures of Electra Elf, produced and directed by Nick Zedd, in which he has played such characters as Super Ulcer, Tom Carvel and the voice of Neuter, a talking dog.

Piper aduncum

In Peru, it was used for stopping hemorrhages and treating ulcers, and in European practice in the treatment of diseases of the genitals and urinary organs, such as those for which cubeb was often prescribed.

Pneumatic Institution

By 1794 Beddoes had arranged for the manufacture of suitable apparatus by the firm of Boulton and Watt and the first of the "pneumatic patients" was a Mr Knight of Painswick, whom Beddoes treated with "unrespirable airs" for a deep-seated ulcer of the pelvis.

Sal Maroni

Dent's assistant Vernon Field provides him prior to court with "stomach medicine" for a supposed ulcer.

Sterno

In Michael Crichton's 1969 novel "The Andromeda Strain" and the 1971 movie based on it, one of the survivors of the deadly extraterrestrial virus is an old man who utilizes "Squeeze" along with aspirin to alleviate the pain caused by a bleeding ulcer diagnosed two years prior to the "Piedmont Incident".


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