A new treatment for gastric and duodenal ulcer.

Seisyu Sakai (酒 井 清 周) (From the Medical Clinic of Prof. T. Kurokawa, Tohoku University, Sendai) (Received for publication, April 28, 1952) Among many ways of treatment for gastric and duodenal ulcer one which has been adopted by physicians, native and foreign, is to protect the wound surface of ulcer from various stimulants, chemical or physical, by which cure is hastened. Mucin has been used for this purpose. I employed nagaimo, a kind of yam (Dioscorea Botatas, Decne), and had a remarkable effect. This makes me report here my discovery of a new treatment for the disease in the confident belief in its high effectuality.