The results of cholecystectomy in terms of symptomatic improvement were prospectively evaluated in 124 unselected gall stone patients interviewed before and two years after elective surgery. Indications for cholecystectomy were biliary pain (n = 65), previous complications of gall stone disease (n = 52), and flatulent dyspepsia (n = 7). At two years 93 patients could be re-evaluated, of whom on...

In its FDA approved formulation, N-butylscopolammonium bromide (Buscopan Injectable Solution, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica) is an anticholinergic spasmolytic agent indicated for management of abdominal pain associated with spasmodic colic, flatulent colic, and simple impactions in horses. Use of this drug ablates gastrointestinal peristalsis and rectal pressure. It ahs been suggested that N-b...

In the China Medical College in Laioning Province in north-east China 760 kilometres from Peking, obstetric and gynaecological patients were treated using a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Over many years of practice and experience, Chinese medical workers concluded that certain herbs have significant antibiotic properties whilst others cause contraction of the smooth m...

A girl, about 19 years of age and mother of one child about three years old, was admitted into the hospital on 18th April, 1937, with complaint of a constant pain and flatulent distension of the abdomen, and a feeling of distress and increased pain about the epigastrium after taking food. This was partly relieved by vomiting four to six hours after meals. These and other minor dyspeptic trouble...

sprue (Chaudhuri and Rai Chaudhuri, 1944), nutritional diarrhoea (Karamchandani, 1944), incomplete sprue (Manson-Bahr, 1940), chronic jejuno-ileal insufficiency (Bennett and Hardwick, 1940), and vitamin B deficiency syndrome allied to sprue (Cook, 1944). Rogers (Rogers and Megaw, 1942) is of the view that unexplained diarrhoea of more than 10 days' duration should be treated as sprue, provided ...

in the temperature and his condition did not improve. Other bacteriological examinations such as cultures of blood, urine and faeces were not practicable but because the results of therapeutic tests were negative and typhoid fever is endemic in the locality my suspicion was strongly in favour of an acute onset of typhoid fever. On and from the 7th day of the disease he was going bad. His temper...

Introduction Infantile colic is a common disorder in the three first months of childhood. There is no clear management in treating this disease which may lead to psychosocial consequences in parents. Due to the importance of infantile colic in Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM) in this study was conducted. Materials and Methods In this review article, we searched the words for colic infantile l...