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Excerpt from Duodenal Ulcer

Among all these forms of organic disease, duodenal ulcer stands out the clearest. We are now familiar with its symptoms, we have learnt of its dangers, we 'are well equipped with the means of treating it with permanently satisfactory results.

One result of this surgical discovery must be that the physician now knowing well that which formerly was not suspected, namely, the attachment of the symptoms he recognises to an organic lesion, will insist upon a much stricter and a more prolonged medical treatment, and in this way it is probable, and is sincerely to be hoped, that some at least of the cases which now seek help at the hands of the surgeon may be permanently relieved of their sufferings by this greater care, and escape the need of operative attentions.

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Excerpt from Duodenal Ulcer

Among the many and great developments of modern abdominal surgery, few of the problems which were to be unravelled have proved more interesting than that concerned with duodenal ulcer. Ten years ago ulceration of the duodenum was looked upon as a rare disease, and its confident recognition during life was believed to be hardly possible. To-day we know that this disease is common, and its discovery in the majority of cases presents no great difficulties to the trained clinician. In my own experience the diagnosis of duodenal ulcer is made with a degree of accuracy that is not exceeded in the case of any other abdominal disorder.

Perhaps the most remarkable feature in the history of this condition is the fact that its main symptoms have through generations of text-books been ascribed without reserve or hesitation to the existence not of an organic but of a purely functional disturbance. The varied and accumulating experience of a few surgeons soon led, however, to the conviction that the range of functional disorders of the stomach must for the future be greatly narrowed, that not a few of the so-called "neuroses" of the stomach were veritable examples of structural changes having their seat in the stomach, duodenum, gall-bladder or appendix.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.