RT Journal
A1 AKIN HL
T1 GAstric symptoms consequent on arteriosclerosis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD June 5
VO LII
IS 23
SP 1825
OP 1828
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420490021002c
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420490021002c
AB Arteriosclerosis, while it may occur in comparatively young individuals who have an inherited tendency to this sort of trouble, syphilitic or otherwise, or who have become subject to it through an acquired syphilis, is pre-eminently a disease of the later years of life and the mention of it brings to our minds almost involuntarily the picture of an elderly person. And it is of a train of symptoms quite frequently to be encountered in persons of middle age having arterial degeneration that I wish to speak. I have been struck with the frequency with which the various manifestations of arteriosclerotic change in the chest and abdomen are attributed to the stomach and some primary disorder of digestion not only by the laity but by physicians as well, and in view of that fact have thought that it would be a profitable subject to bring to consideration.The group of symptoms