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EFFECT OF GASTRIC RESECTION ON GASTRIC ACIDITY

1942; American Medical Association; Volume: 120; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1942.02830440008002

1538-3598

Morris T. Friedell,

Obesity and Health Practices

Early in the war Willcox1reported that, of 41 soldiers evacuated from France and complaining of dyspepsia, 19 had duodenal ulcers and 7 had gastric ulcers. He expressed the belief that the ulcer had existed in most cases prior to enlistment and that conditions in the service had caused a relapse. The etiologic factors for exacerbation or recurrence of symptoms he listed as an increased use of tobacco, alteration of diet, dental deficiencies and familial background. He was unable to relate the high incidence of ulcer to neurogenic factors and felt that ulcer did not develop in men entirely healthy prior to enlistment in the services. Morris2later reported that 143 men in a group of 500 soldiers complaining of dyspepsia had duodenal ulcer. Payne and Newman3made an interim report on dyspepsia in the British army up to December 1940. From the period of dispatch of