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| Year : 1977 | Volume
: 23
| Issue : 1 | Page : 1-9 |
The illogic of peptic ulcer
ML Kothari, Jyoti M Kothari
Department of Anatomy, Seth G.S.Medical College, Parel, Bombay 400012, India
Correspondence Address:
M L Kothari
Department of Anatomy, Seth G.S.Medical College, Parel, Bombay 400012
India
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PMID: 615252 
The unmitigated failure of peptic ulcer therapy has prompted this overview of the epistemologic and logical fallacies of the principles and practice of ulcerology. The illogic, rooted in the very term peptic ulcer, assumes a crescendo momentum, to the detriment of the patient. Like many other fields, ulcerology is causalistically oriented, culminating in cure-all drives against the assumed cause-the acid-pepsin complex. A plea is made, on grounds scientific, to view the situation from a different angle, holding the ulcer as dyspeptic, and as such irrelevant to the pathology, clinical features and treatment.
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