Fibromata and lipomata are very rare.
Foreign bodies in the stomach, particularly balls of hair, have been sometimes mistaken for tumors, particularly cancer, of this organ. Schönborn removed successfully a ball of hair from the stomach by gastrotomy.107 Before the operation the tumor was considered to be a movable kidney.
107 Arch. f. kl. Chirurg., Bd. xxix. p. 609.
HEMORRHAGE FROM THE STOMACH.
BY W. H. WELCH, M.D.
Hemorrhage from the stomach is a symptom, and not a disease. It is a result of a great variety of morbid conditions in the description of which it receives more or less consideration. Already the symptomatology and treatment of hemorrhage from the stomach have been considered in connection with its two most important causes—namely, gastric ulcer and gastric cancer. It remains to give a summary of the etiology and diagnosis of gastric hemorrhage.
Hemorrhage from the stomach is also called gastrorrhagia. The term hæmatemesis is not synonymous with gastric hemorrhage, for blood may be vomited which has simply been swallowed or has passed from the intestine into the stomach.