Medical Treatment of Peptic Ulcer Without Alkalis

The large majority of cases of peptic ulcer which are capable of developing granulations and which are free from serious complications, such as profuse and repeated hemorrhages, perforation, perigastritis and periduodenitis with abscess, phlegmonous gastritis, hour-glass stomach, perhaps burrowing and deep penetration as revealed on the roentgenogram, organic pyloric obstruction and duodenal diverticulum, will heal readily under medical treatment no matter whether they are gastric, pyloric or duodenal. This holds true even in cases in which there is a moderate degree of retention of the gastric contents or a digestive or intermittently continuous hypersecretion with or without spastic or inflammatory pyloric obstruction. In deciding on a medical treatment of peptic ulcer, one should take into consideration not so much the causation of the ulcer as the factors that prevent its healing. No matter what fundamental cause brought on the ulcer, it is a thing of the past and cannot be