A manual of modern gastric methods : chemical, physical, and therapeutical / by A. Lockhart Gillespie ... ; with a chapter upon the mechanical methods used in young children / by John Thomson.

  • Gillespie, A. Lockhart (Alexander Lockhart)
Date:
1901
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Credit: A manual of modern gastric methods : chemical, physical, and therapeutical / by A. Lockhart Gillespie ... ; with a chapter upon the mechanical methods used in young children / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE METHODS FOR OBTAINING THE CONTENTS OF THE STOMACH. Test-Meals—Methods used for the Withdrawal of the Contents—The Stomach-Tube—How to pass it—Stomach-Pumps—Expression —Einhorn's Stomach-Bucket. In dealing with this subject we must divide our description into two heads :—First, the test-meals ; second, the use of the stomach-tube and other instruments. 1. Test-Meals. So many have recommended the use of special test-meals before withdrawing the contents of the stomach for analysis, that it is necessary here to notice the principal forms suggested. The chief test-meals in use are as follows :— («.) Ezuald's and Boas' Test breakfast (Probefriih- stuck). In this, | to 3 oz. of bread are given, and from 10 to 13 oz. of weak tea. The stomach con- tents are to be examined an hour afterwards. The ingredients of this meal are designed to include albuminoids, sugar, starches, non-nitrogenous ex- tractives, and salts; while the tea belongs to a class of foods which, when weak, stimulate the gastric secretion.