THE EFFECT OF ATROPINE ON GASTRIC FUNCTION IN MAN
- 1 September 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 38 (3) , 303-320
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1926.00120270026003
Abstract
The general fact that atropine may diminish gastric secretion is familiar to all physicians. In the case of animals, accurate observations are on record, but in spite of the extensive use of the drug in the clinic, no exact information is available as to the details of its action in man. The method that we have recently described1 for estimating simultaneously the quantity of gastric secretion and discharge lends itself well to the study of this problem and this article deals with the alterations in gastric activity produced in man by administration of atropine. The study is essentially a pharmacologic one, and no attempt will be made to judge the therapeutic value of the drug in clinical disorders of the stomach. LITERATURE Keeton, Koch and Luckhardt2 studied the action of atropine in dogs provided with Pawlow pouches. It was found that large doses of the drug abolished the secretion resultingThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A METHOD FOR THE CONTINUOUS QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF GASTRIC SECRETION AND DISCHARGE IN MANArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1926