Septic Gastritis in Kashmir

Pyorrhoea alveolaris is very prevalent in Kashmir, and is the chief cause of pain in the stomach. Another common cause is worms, i.e., the ordinary round worm and tape worm. These, of course, usually affect children and must be carefully excluded before deciding on any line of treatment for abdominal pain in such patients. The former cause is responsible for at least 80 per cent, of the adult patients complaining of pain in the upper part of the abdomen, and there is no doubt that if pyorrhoea alveolaris could be removed from Kashmir the amount of suffering and indisposition for work would be enormously lessened.