{"title":"Peptic ulcer disease","authors":"E. Livingston, P. Guth","doi":"10.1002/9781119468189.ch16","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the great compendium of the an? cient world's medical knowledge, De Mediana, the first-century Roman physician Celsus offers a treatment for alleviating the symptoms of a peptic ul? cer: \"[Eat]...bland and glutinous foods...and [avoid] all pungent and acidic food.../' Although he addressed only the patient's diet, Celsus's pre? scription of reducing and neutralizing the acid in the stomach has remained the standard treatment of the disease to","PeriodicalId":273112,"journal":{"name":"Textbook of Surgery","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Textbook of Surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119468189.ch16","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the great compendium of the an? cient world's medical knowledge, De Mediana, the first-century Roman physician Celsus offers a treatment for alleviating the symptoms of a peptic ul? cer: "[Eat]...bland and glutinous foods...and [avoid] all pungent and acidic food.../' Although he addressed only the patient's diet, Celsus's pre? scription of reducing and neutralizing the acid in the stomach has remained the standard treatment of the disease to