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Excerpt from The Surgery of the Stomach: A Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment
IN the following pages I have attempted to give a practical account of The Diagnosis and Treatment of those Affections of the Stomach which are amenable to Direct Surgical Inter ference. 1 The significance of the information to be gained from test-meals is considered in some detail, because I believe that such investigations are of great value in the diagnosis of gastric disease. It appears to me strange, that whereas at the present time, bacteriological and pathological examinations are used so extensively in the diagnosis of disease, chemical methods are so rarely made use of in practice, and dealt with so brie?y in text-books. The stomach-tube should be part of the armamentarium of every practitioner. It is not essential that he should perform all the quantitative analyses to which I refer, but I venture to think that he would be repaid amply, if he carried out the ordinary qualitative tests, and the estimation of the total acidity of the gastric contents. The practitioner, be he consultant or otherwise, who, without the aid which such investigations afford, continues to treat a patient suffer ing from persistent indigestion, or gastric pain, is acting unfairly to his patient and unjustly to himself.
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