HISTAMINE TEST MEALS
- 1 June 1933
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 51 (6) , 903-919
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1933.00150250087005
Abstract
During the past few years the growing emphasis on quantitative and biometric methods in clinical medicine has brought into question the older methods of studying gastric secretion, and numerous articles have appeared in which the attempt is made to reassess the various forms of test meal. For reasons previously exposed,1histamine seems the best available agent for the clinical study of gastric secretion, and the histamine test has been systematically used in this clinic for the past four years. The records of 988 tests are now available, a number that is large enough to yield conclusions more or less definitive. The present article deals with an analysis of this material. MATERIAL The subjects included patients with gastro-intestinal complaints, and also a large group who were subjected to the test as part of a general diagnostic study. There were a good many persons to all intents and purposes normal (tableThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: