Abstract

In the past year there have been presented to the medical profession innumerable articles covering every phase of the diagnosis and treatment of peptic ulcer. We believe the proper interpretation of this situation is that so much investigative work and radical changes in the diagnosis and treatment of peptic ulcer are occurring almost daily that it frequently becomes necessary to consider what this progress means to the physician who must apply these advances in the active practice of medicine. The scope of the problem is demonstrated by the fact that it is admitted that there are in the United States at the present time 4,000,000 persons with peptic ulcer. That these advances in the treatment of ulcer demand consideration is evidenced by the establishment, by the American Gastroenterological Association, of a national committee to study and report on all of these phases in order that, in as short a period

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