DIviSION OF THE VAGUS NERVE supply to the stomach has been performed on 52I
patients at The University of Chicago Clinics during the six year period fromJanuary, I943, to …

A VOLUME to honor the 20 years of superb service that Dr. Dallas B. Phemister has given to
the Department of Surgery and to the Medical School of the University of Chicago is fitting …

Adequate therapy of duodenal ulcer should not only accomplish healing of the ulcer but
should prevent its recurrence. Since the advent of vagotomy as a surgical treatment of …

THIS report summarizes our experience with 350 cases of duodenal ulcer subjected to
bilateral vagotomy and followed for periods varying from six to 45 months. The project has …

RESULTS Results were classified as excellent when the patient was completely relieved of
symptoms of ulcer and had no symptoms relating to vagotomy, such as diarrhea, gastric …

FouR YEAs Aco º we presented before this association a small group of patients with
duodenal ulcer, who were treated with bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy and removal of …

EVALUATION OF VAGOTOMY, usually com-bined with gastro-enterostomy, began in June,
1944, and is continuing. Our last re-ports6'7 acknowledged the original studies of Dragstedt …

The results of hemigastrectomy combined with vagotomy are superior to those of subtotal
gastrectomy from every viewpoint, in our experience. These two procedures have been …

Tits over-ALL EsULTs of operative ther-y for duodenal ulcer are at present gen-ally
satisfactory, but the surgeon coninnes to be plagued with a certain number f patients who …

THE QUESTION of regeneration of the vagus nerves and return of gastric secretion after
complete vagotomy has become of great clinical as well as scientific interest because of the …