Duodenal ulcer / by B.G.A. Moynihan.

  • Moynihan, Berkeley Moynihan, Baron, 1865-1936.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Duodenal ulcer / by B.G.A. Moynihan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    duodeni (Copenhagen, 1863). Trier's paper was epit- omised in the British and For. Med.-Chi. Review of January, [864. It contained a report of all cases then on record, and in addition a series of 26 cases, mostly seen in the Frederick Hospital of Copenhagen, were given in detail. Professor Trier, of Copenhagen, lias kindly translated this work for me, and I found the case records of great value. The work is certainly the most important of all the early monographs. In [865 appeared Krauss' Das perforirende Geschwiir im Duodenum (Berlin, Aug. Hirschwald). In this pamphlet there are 80 case records, for the most part in full detail. Between 1863 and 1882 a series of Paris theses appeared, in which a few additional cases were recorded, but nothing material was added to our knowl- edge. In 1883 Chvostec recorded (Allg. Wien. med. Zeitg., xxvii, =>33) eight personal cases, and 135 extracted from published records. In 1887 Bucquoy (Arch. Gen. de Med., i, 398 et seq.) published an article to which due credit has hardly yet been paid. For the first time he made a diagnosis of five cases from the symptoms alone, and verification in one was subse- quently obtained by autopsy. He suggested that the symptoms observed in cases of duodenal ulcer were sufficiently precise and characteristic to enable a diag- nosis to be made. Bucquoy was, I think, the first physician after the time of Abercrombie to suggest the possibility of a diagnosis being made during the life of the patient. In [89] Oppenheimer's thesis (Das Ulcus pepticum duodenale, Wurzburg) appeared; it contained a summary of most of the recorded cases,