COMPLICATIONS OF PEPTIC ULCER

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Abstract
The more recent observations on peptic ulcer have produced many changes in opinion. Many dogmas formerly held in high esteem have been discarded, to be supplanted by beliefs that would once have been regarded with suspicion. This change in sentiment has concerned various phases of the ulcer problem—the nature and etiology of the lesion itself, the preferred status of medical or surgical treatment, and the outlook for permanent cure of the lesion. These questions are all interrelated and their true answers depend at least in some measure on a still unsolved problem, the basic etiology of the disease. It has gradually become obvious that one must think not of cure of the disease but rather of "successful management." In fact, it may be stated that the life history of ulcer in an ulcer-bearing individual ends only with the life of the individual. The successful medical management of the disease, the

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