Excerpt from Collected Reprints From the Department of Experimental Surgery of the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Vol. 3: 1920-1922 Increase in the force or rate or change in the direction of gastric contractions have followed irritation of the gallbladder, duodenum, or appendix, experimentally, and these motor changes have been associated with pathological gallbladders, duodenums, and appendices, clinically.l It may be assumed, subject to further experimental proof, that these organs constitute three of the possible foci of reflex gastric stimulation. Were the nerve paths known along which these impulses travel, it might be possible to explain these motor responses and group other possible causes of gastric motor unrest. 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.