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By Dr. Julius Friedenwald, Dr. Theodore H. Morrison, and Dr. Samuel Morrison. Price, $3. Pp. 251. Baltimore: William Wood & Co., 1938.

Arch Intern Med. 1940;66(3):779-780.

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Symptoms interpreted by the patient as arising within the abdomen, generally in the stomach, occupy a large part of any practitioner's time. That such symptoms may not necessarily indicate a disorder of the organ designated by the patient is not a new idea. Neither is the opposite proposition startling: that symptoms may be induced elsewhere than in the gastrointestinal tract by disease of the latter. The attempt of the authors of these clinics has been to systematize and explain the production of gastrointestinal symptoms by disease processes in other parts of the body, and vice versa.

The first clinic contemplates the "relationship of gastrointestinal and cardiac affections." Perhaps the most common abdominal symptom experienced by the patient with cardiac disease is flatulence. Unfortunately this clinic does not do much to enlighten the reader about the origin, or for that matter the dissipation, of the gas. Flatulence is mentioned as a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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