AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: CHARLES W. MCCLURE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 June 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTTHE EXOCRINE FUNCTIONS OF THE PANCREAS*CHARLES W. MCCLURE, M.D.CHARLES W. MCCLURE, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-12-1848 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptEarly in my career, interest in medical research problems was aroused through a fortunate association with Dr. Joseph H. Pratt of Boston. It was he who stimulated my investigations on the normal and the pathologic physiology of external pancreatic functions. The results of these investigations furnish the subject matter of the present dissertation.Important studies on the rôle of the pancreas in digestion began with the work of Claude Bernard,1who showed that the pancreatic juice was essential to the process of digestion. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Received for publication April 13, 1937.†Gastroenterologist to Fifth Medical Service and to Out-Patient Department of Boston City Hospital; Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDescubrimientos y técnicas que han contribuido a mejorar el tratamiento de las enfermedades pancreáticasPancreatic Exocrine Function in Neoplastic and Inflammatory Disease; A Simple and Reliable New TestPancreas function tests 1 June 1937Volume 10, Issue 12Page: 1848-1866KeywordsDigestionGastroenterology and hepatologyHospital medicineMedical servicesOutpatientsPancreas Issue Published: 1 June 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...