MEDICAL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC ULCER

The medical treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcer

Treatment of gastric ulcer with oestrogens.

When Truelove (1960) reported that oestrogens, in the form of stilboestrol, helped to heal duodenal ulcers, evidence of their value began to be sought in the Gastroenterological Department at the Central Middlesex Hospital (Connell, Fletcher, Jones, Langman, Lennard-Jones, and Pygott, 1966). The effect of oestrogens on patients with gastric ulcers was also examined, and in 1965 Doll, Hill, and ...

Treatment of Chronic Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer

Much of the confusion of thought and teaching which now exists regarding the surgical management of patients suffering from chronic gastric and chronic duodenal ulcer arises from the fact that in recent years it has become customary to class these two conditions together as one disease -peptic ulcer. It is true that chronic gastric and chronic duodenal ulcer have certain features in common; the...

The Intensive Alkaline Treatment of Gastric Ulcer.

THE INTENSIVE ALKALINE TREATMENT OF EDITORIAL NOTES ... . ... ... 14 GASTRIC ULCER. By HUGH MACLEAN, M.D., D.SC., F.R.C.P. I OFFICIAL INTIMATIONS ... ... ..... 15 GASTRO JEJUNOSTOMY VERSUS PARTIAL GASTRECTOIY' IN THE TREATMENT OF CORRESPONDENCE. GASTRIC ULCER. By HERIERT J. PATERSON, C.B.E., M.C., SPECIAL DIPLOMAS, ... ... .. .. 16 M,D., F.R.C.S. ... ... ... ... 5 A CLINICAL LECTURE ON SOME POI...

Gastric ulcer.

are present: hydrochloric acid, and progressive erosion of an area of mucosa by the digestive action of the gastric juices. Our understanding of this process makes a fascinating story, linked with the names of two famous patients, Alexis and Tom. Two hundred years ago five processes were said to occur in the stomach during the digestion of a meal. These were concoction, putrefaction, trituratio...