Abstract:IN 1886, Jaworski and Gluzinski * introduced the generally accepted system of estimating gastric acidity in terms of " degrees." They then pointed out that the subject had been intensively studied for over a hundred years and apologized for adding another communication to the many already published. Forty-six years later, Vanzant and her collaborators 2 called attention to the amazing fact that, despite the enormous amount of investigation, we have not even today any reliable standards of normal acidity for va… Show more
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