. Diseases of the stomach : including dietetic and medicinal treatment . Pain line in a case of chronic appendicitis, with hunger pain relieved by eating. Cured byappendectomy. (Circles represent meals.) mild form of chronic hypersecretion almost regularly accompanies theparoxysm and is an added factor in increasing the severity of thedistress. Fig. 118. Pain curve of a case of uncomplicated chronic appendicitis cured by operation. The pain lineconforms to that of the hunger pain. The arrows indicate eructations of gas which are followed bytemporary relief. In some instances the feeling is one
. Diseases of the stomach : including dietetic and medicinal treatment . Pain line in a case of chronic appendicitis, with hunger pain relieved by eating. Cured byappendectomy. (Circles represent meals.) mild form of chronic hypersecretion almost regularly accompanies theparoxysm and is an added factor in increasing the severity of thedistress. Fig. 118. Pain curve of a case of uncomplicated chronic appendicitis cured by operation. The pain lineconforms to that of the hunger pain. The arrows indicate eructations of gas which are followed bytemporary relief. In some instances the feeling is one of great distress temporarilyrelieved by raising gas—more completely relieved by eating. Pain in the stomach occurs after eating, as in ulcer, but the time ofits appearance after the meal is less definite than in the latter disease 570 VARIOlS DISEASES AXD THEIR GASTRIC RELATIONS and lacks its clock-like regularity. The pain may thus appear on oneday an hour after meals and on other days two or three hours afterfood has been taken. Its capricious appearance is recognized by thepatients, who often say their pain comes at any time. This irregularityof the pain after the meals is of value in differential diagnosis, butunfortunately in many instances the pain appears with the same definiteregularity after eating as does the i)ain of ulcer, so that
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