THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GASTRIC ACIDITY*
Authors: ZACHARY SAGAL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1933)

Article1 July 1933THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GASTRIC ACIDITYA Study of 6679 Cases with Digestive SymptomsZACHARY SAGAL, M.D., JEROME A. MARKS, M.D., JOHN L. KANTOR, M.D.ZACHARY SAGAL, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JEROME A. MARKS, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JOHN L. KANTOR, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-7-1-76 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1886, Jaworski and Gluzinski1introduced the generally accepted system of estimating gastric acidity in terms of "degrees." They then pointed out that the subject had been intensively studied for over a hundred years and apologized for adding another communication to the many already published. Forty-six years later, Vanzant and her collaborators2called attention to the amazing fact that, despite the enormous amount of investigation, we have not even today any reliable standards of normal acidity for various ages. Their explanation that this gap in our knowledge is due in part to the difficulty of getting a large number of...Bibliography1. JAWORSKIGLUZINSKI WA: Experimentell-klinische Untersuchungen über den Chemismus and Mechanismus der Verdauungsfunction des menschlichen Magens im physiologischen und pathologischen zustande, nebst einer Methode zur klinischen Prüfung der Magenfunction für diagnostische und therapeutische Zwecke, Ztschr. f. klin. Med., 1886, xi, 50-98, 270-293. Google Scholar2. VANZANTALVAREZEUSTERMANDUNNBERKSON FRWCGBHLJ: The normal range of gastric acidity from youth to old age: an analysis of 3746 records, Arch. Int. Med., 1932, xlix, 345-359. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. 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