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FRANK SMITHIES, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1920;74(23):1555-1558.

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My aim in this report is to stimulate serious scrutiny of methods in vogue in the management of peptic ulcer. That such inquiry is needed is proved by recalling that, although much useful knowledge has accrued to physicians from recent clinical, operative, chemical, experimental and pathologic studies, yet, apart from various surgical procedures, little essential has been contributed to the actual, practical treatment of the affection since the time of Celsus.¹ In various languages, from the period of that clinical patriarch, have similar directions been given for the cure of ulcus ventriculi: "Remove or neutralize the acid which causes (sic) the ulcer, and nature will do the remainder."

It would seem to be a painful commentary on the acuteness of the modern physician to say that he has learned nothing from the clinical observations (and mistakes) of such assiduous workers as Littré (1704), Baillie (1793), Abercrombie (1832), Cruveilhier (1835), . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine; Gastro-Enterologist, Augustana Hospital; Medical Consultant, U. S. Marine Hospital CHICAGO

Footnotes
Chairman's address, read before the Section on Gastro-Enterology and Proctology at the Seventy-First Annual Session of the American Medical Association. New Orleans, April, 1920.

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