Excerpt from Progressive Medicine, Vol. 4: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences; December, 1899 The effect of motion in promoting chemical changes in the stomach contents has been recently studied by Turck,1 who, in a preliminary report, has shown that in the artificial stomach the addition of regular churning movements materially advanced the digestive process. Acute Catarrhal Gastritis. Some sensible remarks on this disease and on its management are made by Boardman Reed,2 in which he calls attention to the fact that acute febrile catarrh of the stomach is uncom mon in the adult, though so frequent in children. He points out that the well-known symptoms are closely simulated by vomiting, associated with gastralgia, dependent upon nervous disturbance. This observation should be emphasized, as this error in diagnosis is frequently made. In gastritis there is always tenderness on deep pressure. Superficial tenderness is more common in the neuroses and is dependent upon hyperaesthesia. The presence of hyperaesthesia in other regions and the accompanying evidences of nervous irritability assist in making the distinction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.