BASAL GASTRIC SECRETION AS A CLINICAL TEST OF GASTRIC FUNCTION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PEPTIC ULCER

Abstract

Because strong stimuli tend to wipe out differences in gastric secretion in various people, the fasting basal secre tion was measured in successive 10-minute periods for an hr. Both volume and acidity varied greatly in normal people, but many patients with duodenal ulcer had an acidity above that ever reached by normals. Such high values therefore had diagnostic value. Results in gastric ulcer were indistinguishable from those in normals.