CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUNGER PAINS
ANALYSIS OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO CASES OF GASTRO-INTESTINAL AND GALLBLADDER DISEASES
- WILLIAM H. HIGGINS, M.D.
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The modern conception of gastric function constitutes a new chapter in physiology. On account of its accessibility, this organ has stimulated more experimental work and has attracted more general interest than probably any other part of the human anatomy. Within the span of a few years, radical changes have taken place. Ideas that were once accepted concerning it are now discarded, and many established facts of yesterday are crumbling in the light of our present knowledge.
HISTORICAL One of these radical departures from former teachings is the modern interpretation of the hunger mechanism. For many years Haller's theory of the mechanical stimulation of sensory nerves in the gastric mucosa was generally accepted, and was the foundation of much of our therapeutics. Even Pawlow supported this idea and based his assumption on the effect of wine as a hunger excitant.
Following this period, the view that the empty stomach was contracted
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Read before the fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Medical Society of Virginia, Roanoke, Oct. 16, 1923.
