Abstract
The stomach has been unjustly accused of more pathologic sins, and has received more unnecessary treatment than any other organ of equal size and importance. Nearly all of these transgressions are included under the general term about which much has been written and but little known until recently, when the pathology of the organs in the abdominal cavity has been correctly studied by direct inspection in the work of the abdominal surgeon. We find in our best text-books on medicine beautifully written chapters on the classification, etiology, symptomatology, diagnosis and treatment of chronic dyspepsia, some of which have been copied and handed down for generations. These descriptions are full of errors as we now know from the study of the pathology of the living. The diagnosis was based mainly on theory and fancy, and was seldom correct; hence the treatment was empiric, and in the newer light of to-day
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