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The terminology, etiology, chemical gastric pattern and evaluation of the clinical picture of non-specific gastriti were surveyed from the writer’s records with a view toxvard implications for diagnosis and preventive therapy. A bird’s eye view of the literature was offered. The procedures here emphasized amply served the writer as a multiphasic approach for taking guess-work out of empiricism. Examination of the stool for occult blood, with evaluation of the gastric chemistry and roentgenologic survey of the gastroenteric tract, constituted a diagnostic tripod, if and when understandingly performed.
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Golob, M. Non-specific gastritis: Practical procedures in clinical diagnosis. Amer. Jour. Dig. Dis. 19, 350–356 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02879191
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