CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND PEPTIC ULCER

Chronic Peptic Ulcer General Considerations

General Considerations Few diseases, whether from their commonness or their difficulties in treatment, can claim a more constant place in medical attention than peptic ulcer, a comment applying with equal force to physician and to surgeon, to hospital and to general practice. Figures of emergency admissions show few conditions higher on the medical side than acute gastric haemorrhage, while sur...

Chronic Peptic Ulcer General Considerations

General Considerations Few diseases, whether from their commonness or their difficulties in treatment, can claim a more constant place in medical attention than peptic ulcer, a comment applying with equal force to physician and to surgeon, to hospital and to general practice. Figures of emergency admissions show few conditions higher on the medical side than acute gastric haemorrhage, while sur...

Peptic ulcer and chronic renal failure.

PROBABLY the first real attempt to ascertain if any casual relationship existed between peptic ulcer and renal disease was contained in a survey of post mortem records by Perry and Shaw (1893). They found that some form of kidney disease was present in seven per cent of deaths and as their cases of duodenal ulcer numbered 70, they reasoned that seven per cent, or five cases, might have been exp...

Medical aspects of chronic peptic ulcer.

General Considerations Few diseases, whether from their frequency of incidence or their difficulties in treatment, can claim a more rightful place in medical attention than peptic ulcer, a comment applying with equal force to physician and to surgeon, and to hospital as well as to general practice. Figures of hospital emergency admissions show few conditions more demanding on the medical side t...

Peptic Ulcer