Excerpt from The Texas Medical Journal, Vol. 22: From July, 1906, to June, 1907 Not more than a pint of warm water should be introduced into the stomach and withdrawn by siphon and the quantity measured. If this be done before breakfast, as it should, and the amount be more than that introduced, it shows retention or hypersecretion, with or without stagnation, which calls for the continued use of the tube as a therapeutic agent. 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.