| VOL. I. | FEBRUARY, 1886. | No. 4. |
ORIGINAL LECTURES.
ULCER OF THE STOMACH.
A LECTURE BY PROF. L. OSER OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA.
[Translated for the Cleveland Medical Gazette by Dr. C. Rosenwasser].
Gentlemen! The disease which we intend to study to-day is one, the traces of which are found much oftener at post-mortems than the disease itself in the clinic. A great many cases are overlooked and improperly diagnosed for reasons which I shall state hereafter.
It has been called by various names. Round ulcer, perforating ulcer, chronic ulcer, corroding ulcer and simple ulcer are only different designations for one and the same condition. I prefer to call it peptic ulcer, as it is always the result of self-digestion of a part of the walls of the stomach, but is not always round, nor perforating, nor chronic, nor corroded; nor is it always simple, several ulcers having occasionally been found in one and the same stomach.