The problem of peptic ulcer therapy is not the relief of symptoms, which is readily achieved
by medical or surgical treatment, but the prevention of recurrent ulceration. It is generally …

An intraoperative test for the completeness of vagotomy has been proposed and evaluated
in dogs. It combines the well established vagal stimulatory agent, 2-DG, with a reliable …

Comment: In 1929 HartzelJ1 reported, in a group of dogs followed one to five months after
vagotomy, a marked reduction in free and total acid in gastric secretions after a test meal …

The reproducibility of acid responses to modified sham feeding by the chew-and-spit
technique (PAOsh) was investigated in 21 duodenal ulcer (DU) patients 8 to 14 days after …

The results of the insulin‐infusion test carried out after vagotomy in 50 patients are
presented. In 25 cases a comparison was made between the insulin‐infusion test and the …

A review was made of 72 patients 3–6 years after proximal gastric vagotomy without
drainage operation for duodenal ulcer. To assess the prognostic value of gastric acid …

This paper reports a critical analysis of the results of the investigations used to establish a
diagnosis in, 37 patients submitted to a second operation for presumed recurrent or …

Gastric emptying of liquid was studied in 10 normal volunteers and in 27 patients previously
treated with truncal vagotomy and drainage. Thirteen of the twenty-seven patients …

The introduction of vagotomy as treatment for peptic ulcer disease by Jaboulay in 1899 by
far antidates the efforts of surgeons to uncover a reliable test for completeness of vagotomy …

METHOD It was not possible to use a continuous aspiration technique because, in order to
determine the antral response, it was necessary that the antrum should be stimulated by a …