PREVENTION OF RECURRENCES IN PEPTIC ULCER
Authors: T L ALTHAUSEN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Article1 March 1949PREVENTION OF RECURRENCES IN PEPTIC ULCERTHEODORE L. ALTHAUSEN, M.D., F.A.C.P.THEODORE L. ALTHAUSEN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-30-3-544 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe thoughtful internist has reason to be dissatisfied with the present handling of the problem of peptic ulcer. Statistically peptic ulcer occupies twentieth place in the prevalence of chronic diseases in the United States. However, it rises to fourteenth place in the number of invalids disabled, to twelfth place in the annual number of working days lost, and to tenth place in the annual number of deaths from chronic diseases in this country.1Symptomatic of this discontent is the eagerness with which both physicians and victims of this disease are willing to abandon the standard methods of medical treatment and...Bibliography1. 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