On the use of histamine in the diagnosis and therapy of gastric diseases

Abstract

Since Еinhorn′s thin probe appeared, the technique of gastric gland function research began to improve rapidly, and many experimental works on the study of secretory and motility ability of the stomach, which seemed recently available only to physiological laboratories, found a place in the clinic as well. Without entering into criticism and evaluation of numerous methods of research of functional ability of the stomach with the help of long probing, first proposed by Ehrenreich in 1913 and improved later by Rehfuss, Benett, Gorshkov and others, we shall mention only that for this purpose in their works some authors resorted to natural stimulants, others to chemical ones.

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