...fasting stomach showed a quantity of 70 cc of fluid with an acid reaction ; a total acidity of 105, with the absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic acid ; and a large amount of mucous. The presence of blood was demonstrated by both the benzidine and the guaiac...

...and antiperistaltic movements, and signs of stagnation. Examination of the contents of the stomach showed the absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic and butyric acids. On April 20, 1898, an operation was performed. In the pyloric antrum was found a...

...carcinoma of the stomach, which had been based upon the persistent vomiting, the dilatation of the stomach, the absence of free hydrochloric acid, and the presence of lactic acid. The drowsy, apathetic, and finally comatose condition of the patient could only be explained on the...

...published cases of non-malignant gastric troubles in which lactic acid was found in the gastric contents. The absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic acid- although they are, as we have seen, not pathognomonic—are, however, of importance and frequently...

...published cases of non-malignant gastric troubles in which lactic acid was found in the gastric contents. The absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic acid, although they are, as we have seen, not pathognomonic, are, however, of importance and frequently help...

...After the administration of a test-meal, the material for examination in almost all instances shows the absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic acid. The bowels are constipated. This may be due to the fact that very little food reaches the intestines....

...stomach, seemed a very important point. Then the anaemia, the nausea, the failure of stomach digestion, the absence of free hydrochloric acid, and the presence of lactic acid, in spite of the fact that he had only completed his twenty-fifth year, point to carcinoma of the stomach."...

...and antiperistaltic movements, and signs of stagnation. Examination of the contents of the stomach showed the absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic and butyric acids. On April 20, 1898, an operation was performed. In the pyloric antrum was found a...

...relatively abundant quantity of residue containing numerous coarse morsels of meat. An analysis reveals the absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic acid ; the same result is obtained after a test-breakfast. If aspiration of the stomach-contents is repeated...

...regards the early diagnosis of cancer of the stomach no new points are broughtforward in this paper. The absence of free hydrochloric acid and the presence of lactic acid in the éjecta, the dyspeptic symptoms, the pain, the vomiting, the small hsematemeses, the emaciation,...