Some new methods of test meal and feces examinations : their significance in clinical work / by Anthony Bassler.

  • Bassler, Anthony, 1874-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Some new methods of test meal and feces examinations : their significance in clinical work / by Anthony Bassler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3-. Reprinted from N /Sv- Of , ,tctrk-Statje- Journal of Medicine, August. igj'or; 'o / /-j j •'c [>- co D. 70 1 CL i /.Cv SOME NEW METHODS OF TEST MEAL AND FECES EXAMINATIONS. THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN CLINICAL WORK* By ANTHONY BASSLER, M.D. NEW YORK CITY. THERE is no always and no never in medi- cine—and so it is with test meal and feces examinations in diagnosing gastroenteric affections.. Therefore, it is manifest that any means which can bring into easy clinical utiliza- /10n^S0Lme °f the additionaI and more difficult (and thus rarely employed) points in laboratory procedure, seems worthy of consideration. Par- ticularly is this true, when, by test meal analyses the states of acid-enzymotic secretion, pres- ence of blood, certain bacteria, food, tissue par- ticles and so forth from the stomach give negative findings in the majority of cases of gastric ulcer and early cancer; when, the other an test meal methods of examination have proven worthless in the diagnosis of hyperacidity and hypersecretion of the stomach; when, con- testfnh the dlS/stlve,tract as a whole, the dietetic ts observed from feces examinations so often ! ,astraf; and when, the states of chronic - testmal putrefactions are more times mat- state'“d NwYork.HjaiuTry6^ i°9f,0the Medical Society of the