GASTRO-INTESTINAL STUDIES

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4 July 1914

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. LXIII (1) , 11-13
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1914.02570010013004

Abstract

The routine examination of material from the empty stomach in the morning discloses a small pale yellowish or greenish residue, somewhat cloudy, containing mucus and a little cell débris. We are told by Loeper,¹Zweig,²Kemp,³Wolff,⁴Strauss,⁵Riegel⁵and Soupalt⁵that in health this residue should not exceed 20 c.c., and that there should be no macroscopic food-residues. It is true that occasionally the microscope discloses fatglobules, cells with their protoplasm digested and their nuclei set free, and rarely vegetable-fibers or meatfibers, but no macroscopic residue is forthcoming. This is the common finding with the stomach-tube, and the results recorded have gone unquestioned. Only recently Harmer and Dodd,⁶by careful Roentgen studies, pointed out that we are by no means sure that the stomach-tube reaches the lowest point of the stomach. In other words, they showed that the stomach-tube, even when

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