Excerpt from Collected Reprints From the Department of Experimental Surgery of the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Vol. 2: 1915-1919 Recently a patient came to my office. I took an ordinary test breakfast and to my surprise found present pieces of vegetable eaten at dinner the night before. The patient was then sent for roentgen-ray study and the barium was given. The roentgenologist reported that the stomach evacuates itself rapidly and is almost completely empty at two hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.