Factors in the Pathogenesis of Peptic Ulcer: The Present Basis of Treatment

Gelastic epilepsy.

“…The patient got better rapidly after treatment with intravenous diazepam, and, though she later suffered further episodes of laughter, continuation of this treatment produced sustained improvement. Gumpert and colleagues noted that others'2 13 have described similar electroencephalographic abnormalities in cases of gelastic epilepsy, though some reports of previous cases have described 14 and 6 c/s positive spike patterns'4 and features resembling hypsarrhythmia. 9 Roger and his colleagues'3 found that some of their patients with epileptic attacks associated with laughter or smiling had clear evidence of temporal lobe epilepsy, and in one of the patients described by Daly and Mulder'0 a left temporooccipital oligodendroglioma was found.…”

Controlling gastric acid.

“…Travellers to and from the moon on Apollos 11, 12, and 13 have reported seeing flashes of light at average rates varying from several times a minute to once every two minutes during the time their eyes were dark-adapted. Yet similar phenomena have never been reported by either American or Russian astronauts while orbiting the earth nor by any Apollo men while in orbit round the moon.…”