The great disadvantages of strophanthus and apocynum pertain to the extreme uncertainty of their absorption from the gastro-intestinal tract.
For infants milk is the exclusive diet, the formula for bottle-fed babies having to be weakened on account of the catarrhal condition of the gastro-intestinal tract.
In certain pathological conditions involving the gastro-intestinal tract, for example, the patient comes to the surgeon after medical treatment has failed to give relief and surgical intervention is necessary to save life.
It is due to cardiac disturbance from the stomach and intestinal tract; this will be discussed in a separate chapter.
For instance, over-indulgence in meat or drink may readily bring about various ailments of the gastro-intestinal tract.
There are likely to be disturbances, then, in the gastro-intestinal tract as a consequence of the muscular condition that {484} develops in those patients.
In most cases of hereditary syphilis there are evidences of disturbance of the gastro-intestinal tract.
Whether it depends upon a lack of secretions in the gastro-intestinal tract is not known, as there has been no thorough study of this aspect of the disorder.
This subject gains added interest in view of the recent reports of Uhlmann as well as of Voegtlin, showing that water-soluble vitamine acts as a stimulant for the various secretions of the gastro-intestinal tract.
It would be of interest to know the fate of the antiscorbutic vitamine in the gastro-intestinal tract.
Wohlwill[168] has emphasized the fact that the members of the iron group owe their comparative harmlessness to not being absorbed by the gastro-intestinal tract.
In deciding whether plants are poisonous it is desirable not merely to test the aqueous or alcoholic extract, but also the extracts obtained by digesting these plants with the ferments which occur in the gastro-intestinal tract.
In other words, the pathological condition, according to published accounts, shows little that is characteristic save some action on the gastro-intestinal tract.
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