Of the former, the usual causes of death are pneumonia, gastritis and enteritis.
In other cases the symptoms of gastritis are more prominent, or jaundice may appear and aggravate the disease.
In peritonitis or gastritis the mouth is apt to be drawn up with a peculiar expression of suffering and nausea.
Inflammatory infiltration (inflammatory oedema) of the muscular coat has been adduced as a cause of its weakness in chronic catarrhal gastritis and in peritonitis.
Of especial importance is the timely treatment of cases of dyspepsia or of chronic catarrhal gastritis which are accompanied with fermentation or delayed digestion--conditions in which the stomach-tube is of great service.
Acute erythematous gastritis is most frequently met with in children.
Finally, in the existence of chronic catarrhal gastritis is to be found another cause of vomiting in many cases of gastric cancer.
Cachexia is of more importance, but it is to be remembered that ulcer, and even chronic gastritis in rare instances, may be attended by a cachexia indistinguishable from that of cancer.
This inflammation may occur either independently or in combination with gastritis mucosa.
Moreover, symptoms of purely functional dyspepsia are so frequently associated with the subacute forms of gastritis that the pathology of the disease becomes, from necessity, doubtful and complex.
The most common cause of dyspepsia in gastric ulcer is the chronic catarrhal gastritis which usually accompanies this disease.
In gastritis the nausea is from the first a pronounced feature of the disease.
Ulceration occurring in toxic, in diphtheritic, and in phlegmonous gastritis need not be discussed here.
The gastritis or gastro-enteritis requires appropriate attention, as does any systemic malady under which the patient may be laboring.
As cancer may have been preceded by ulcer or chronic gastritis for years, it is evidently unsafe to trust too much to the duration of the illness.
Chronic interstitial gastritis or fibroid induration of the stomach cannot be distinguished with any certainty from cancer of the stomach.
Deuteropathic catarrhal oesophagitis occurs sometimes as an extension of catarrhal pharyngitis on the one hand, and of catarrhal gastritis on the other.
Glasser reports a case of phlegmonous gastritis with gastric ulcer.
Bismuth: in gastritis due to chronic abscess or chronic alcoholism.
Opium: May be necessary to produce sleep; to relieve the pain of the chronic gastritis and the want of appetite.
Gastritis is often confused with gastric cancer, and in diagnosis it is difficult to speak with authority as to whether the case is ordinary gastritis, as above described, gastric ulcer, or gastric cancer.
The defence was that the prescription had been properly filled, but that the child was the victim of various diseases, from acute gastritis to cerebro-spinal meningitis.
To-day he is forced to admit that he would not know a case of acute gastritis from one of mumps.
The foods constituting the diet in chronic gastritis must be of the simplest character and prepared in the simplest manner.
Twenty-four hours of total abstinence from food may seem extreme, but as a rule in acute cases of gastritisit is the only sane and safe method of instituting a diet and thus beginning to overcome the cause of the disturbance.
Gastro-intestinal Disturbances~, manifested in cirrhosis of the liver, are treated by the diet used in chronic gastritis (see p.
When the symptoms are mainly those arising from disturbed digestion of the stomach and intestines, without kidney or heart complication, the diet for chronic gastritisis used.
The patient gives evidence of chronic gastritis with continued pain, localized tenderness, vomiting of partially digested food and at times dilatation from extreme fermentation.
Gastritis is also caused by the ingestion of food which has begun to decompose, or may result from eating unsuitable articles which themselves remain undigested and so excite acute catarrhal conditions.
In 5 cases described by Roux there was also hyperaemia of the brain and kidneys, but no gastritis or enteritis.
No one appears to deny that he has clearly proved the existence of mucous gastritis and enteritis in many or most fevers, or the propriety of directing a part of the remedies to them.
A chronic inflammation of the stomach is a very common affection and has many phases, but the term chronic gastritis is applied only to that species of inflammation occasioned and accompanied by irritation.
