On Modern Methods of Diagnosis in Gastric Affections

Of late years many new procedures have been introduced with the object of improving our methods of diagnosis in gastric affections by direct analysis of the gastric juice, and of thus enabling us by the light of more exact knowledge of the morbid process to interfere with greater precision and success. The methods employed?which, roughly speaking, consist in the withdrawal of a portion of the stomach-contents during various stages of digestion, without risk or undue discomfort to the patient, and subsequent analysis of them by special tests?have already materially added to our knowledge of the processes that normally take place in gastric digestion and of their 7