During the past decade it has become increasingly apparent that after the Polya type of gastric resection there is a very real risk of subsequent intestinal obstruction by the impaction of foodstuffs in the small bowel. The present paper is prompted by the recent occurrence on one surgical unit of three such cases, in all of which orange-pith was the offending substance. This particular complication of gastrectomy should be a preventable cause of morbidity, and it is therefore worthy of wide recognition.

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