RT Journal
T1 GAstritis and its consequences
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1935
FD December 21
VO 105
IS 25
SP 2098
OP 2098
DO 10.1001/jama.1935.02760510070032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1935.02760510070032
AB This little monograph presents the views of Dr. Knud Faber, based solely on his personal experience with gastritis over a period of forty years. There are three parts, the first on acute and chronic gastritis, the second on gastritis and hyperacidity, and the third on gastritis and anacidity. The subject of gastritis is an interesting one in that about thirty years ago the term was a diagnostic one to be frowned on for many years and to reappear recently as the result of examination of the stomach itself by direct vision, gastroscopy, and of the tissues removed by resection of the stomach for ulcer or carcinoma. The author's method of immediate postmortem, intragastric injection of 4 per cent solution of formaldehyde has made it possible to obtain tissues that have not undergone lytic degeneration and to report the true story of what he thinks gastritis really is. This work has