On the digestive ferments and the preparation and use of artificially digested food : being the Lumleian lectures for the year 1880, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians / by Wm. Roberts.

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1880
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    food for the ailing organ appeared to be an additional advantage. I may be permitted to mention one case. The patient had suffered from copious and repeated heematemesis, and from severe epigastric pain. The irritability of the stomach was such that the simplest nourishment, given in the smallest quantities, was immediately rejected. Peptonised milk-gruel was, however, tolerated at once; vomituio- only occurred two or three times during the two first days of the treatment, and then ceased, as did like- wise the epigastric pain. This patient used no other food for a period of six weeks, and took daily from, two to three quarts—with steady recovery of flesh and strength. Pyloric and Intestinal Obstruction.—Peptonised aliment would appear to be especially suitable for use in these cases, but, so far, I have been somewhat disappointed in the results. The vomiting has generally been effectually controlled, but I have not been able to convince -myself, in cases of pyloric stricture, that the fatal event was delayed even a single day. When the obstruction has been tem- porary, and due to a removable cause, the results have been of course more satisfactory. I should be glad to see a further trial made of peptonised, or partially peptonised, milk in the gastric and intestinal catarrh of infants. In one severe case of this class a favourable result was immediately obtained; in another case there was greater tolerance of food, and more comfort after it.