The etiology and pathogenesis of solitary ulcer of the duodenum

As the subject for my Edinburgh M.D. thesis I propose to take "The Etiology and Pathogenesis of Duodenal Ulcer", and especially deal with that most interesting and obscure form known as the "Solitary peptic ulcer of the Duodenum" . The subject of duo¬ denal ulcer at the present moment is often referred to in current medical literature, and although in its beginning a purely medical subject, like gastric ulceration, yet it is to the surgeon that we owe the diagnosis in the great majority of cases, for as a rule, the condition is either diagnosed at a lapar¬ otomy for septic peritonitis, or else at an explor¬ atory coeliotomy for some obscure gastrin disorder which proves to be secondary to an ulcer of the duodenu