REDUCING THE SURGICAL RISK IN SOME GASTRO-INTESTINAL CONDITIONS

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As early as 1918, McCann1showed an increase in the alkali reserve of the blood in pyloric obstruction. Two years later, MacCallum, Lintz, Vermilye, Leggett and Boas2reported an increase in the carbon dioxid combining power of the blood plasma, and a fall in chlorids following sectioning of the pylorus in dogs. Hastings, Murray and Murray3studied the blood of dogs with pyloric obstruction and found that they all developed an alkalosis. Grant4noted a similar rise in the carbon dioxid combining power of the plasma and a reduction of the chlorids in two clinical cases of obstruction of the pylorus. In acute intestinal obstruction, Tileston and Comfort5were the first to report an increase in the blood nitrogen. Cooke, Rodenbaugh and Whipple,6in experiments on dogs, also found a rise in the nonprotein and urea nitrogen. Draper7reports essentially the same findings,

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