Three Recent Cases of Gastric Ulcer Treated by Gastrectomy

in a hot-tempered person; that in the aged the pulse was mostly empty, and in young people it was large, and in infants rapid. Differentiationi was also made between the pulses of the sexes. The pulse on the left hand of males should be large to correspond with the male-sex principle, but in females it should be the opposite character, the female-sex principle predominating on the right side of the body. Marvellous claims were made for the diagnostic value of the pulse. A wvell-trained physician was said to be able to tell if a woman was pregnant, and even to predict the sex and development of the fcetus. For example, in cases where mnenstruation had ceased from no apparent cause, a slippery pulse would indicate pregnancy; if it were, in addition, rapid and scattered, it showed that the pregnancy was one of three months' duration, but if it was rapid and not scattered it indicated a pregnancy of five months' duration. If the pulse of the left wrist was rapid, a son could be expected; but if a right pulse was rapid, a daughter would surely be born. Twins could be foretold by an overflowing pulse in both vrists, and triplets if both wrists were smooth and regular. Beliefs such as these were held by Chinese physicians right up to recent timnes, and, indeed, native physicians in outlying portions of China still believe them, and base their practice on them. It is not surprising then to find that physicians in China did not receive recognition as being men of any great standing in the community, and were assigned to the lowest grade of society. This fact is clear from a study of the T'ang Annals, in which it is stated: " Mathematicians, surveyors, fortune-tellers, phvsiognomists, physicians, and magicians were charlatans, and the sages did not regard them as educated." Chu Hsi, the famnous commentator on the Confucian classics, supports this view, and states: " Sun Szu-mo was a noted doctor of literature of the T'ang dynasty, but as he practised healing as a profession he was relegated to the class of artisans." History.-Double pneumonia four years ago, and pneumonia in August, 1937. Epigastric pain for the last three years, relieved by alkalies. Two courses of nedical treatment had no permanent effect. Vomiting.