The Examination of the Function of the Intestines by Means of the Test-Diet: Its Application in Medical Practice and Its Diagnostic and Therapeutic Value (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Adolf Schmidt

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ISBN 10: 1331972132 ISBN 13: 9781331972136

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Examination of the Function of the Intestines by Means of the Test-Diet: Its Application in Medical Practice and Its Diagnostic and Therapeutic Value

The following pages owe their origin to a series of lectures, which I delivered in the summer of 1903 at the instance of my colleagues. They sum up for medical pur poses the results of my investigations and Observations continued for about eight years. The desire to obtain an examination for the function of the intestines, that could be carried out in practice, analogous to the usual examinations of the stomach contents, and to advance by means Of this examination the diagnosis and therapeutics Of the diffuse intestinal diseases, in the Same way as it has already been accomplished in.the pathology of the stomach, was the incentive which led me from the beginning. The great deviations from our plan, which my investigations and those of my co - worker, Dr. Strasburger, made necessary in order to secure a scientifically established basis for our practical methods, have made it impossible to put this goal in the foreground, as I had it in mind to do. For this reason and partly also because our works were scattered in the inaccessible literature, our methods for examining the func tion of the intestine have not yet been able to secure a firm footing in practice. To many they at first seemed too complicated, a fault, which, I hope, has been almost al together removed. The conviction, that our functional examination, though it still has many gaps, can be Of service to the practitioner in many respects even in its present form, and the encouraging approbation Of col leagues, have induced me to make this comprehensive pres entation. At the same time it affords me a desired Oppor tunity for the publication of some recently Obtained results.

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Excerpt from The Examination of the Function of the Intestines by Means of the Test-Diet: Its Application in Medical Practice and Its Diagnostic and Therapeutic Value Functional Diagnosis of the Stomach and of the Intestine. - Experiments in Digestion. - Conditions of a Rational Test of the Function of the Intestine. - The Examination of the Content of the Stomach as Indicator. To any one who compares the present state of intestinal pathology with that of the pathology of the stomach, there can be no doubt, that in spite of the various advances we have made, especially in the field of local inflammations (appendicitis) of stricture and of obstruction of the intestine, the former has nevertheless remained very far behind the latter. This is especially true for those diffuse diseases of the intestine and its adnexa (the liver and the pancreas) which have no broadly recognizable symptoms. These will form the subject of our consideration primarily; in other words, the lighter grades of inflammation and the numerous other so-called functional diseases, for which it has hitherto proved impossible to find an anatomic substratum. In the pathology of the stomach it is in the knowledge of just these forms of diseases that extraordinary progress has been made in the last two decades, and this we owe to the use of the stomach-tube for the purposes of diagnosis (v. Leube) and to the introduction of the test-breakfast and the test-meal (Ewald, Riegel); in short, to the creation of a functional diagnosis of the diseases of the stomach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331972132
• ISBN 13: 9781331972136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 101