The mean and range of venous pressure values in the various body surface areas is presented. Attention is directed to the variability of these values, the constantly decreasing pressure gradient towards the heart, and the essentially equal pressures in corresponding veins on opposite sides of the body. The importance of accurately identifying the vein is emphasized. The relation of venous pressure to age, sex, race and other physiologic factors is commented upon.

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CHRONIC BENIGN ULCERS high on the lesser curvature of the stomach and those juxta-esophageal in position have always presented technical problems in their surgical management. A multiplicity of procedures has been advocated. At first, these operations were designed to relieve the gastric retention secondary to a reflex pylorospasm. However, gastrojejunostomy, usually without the local excision of the lesion, even though it relieves the obstruction, has been found to be an unreliable and ineffectual operation in most * Read before the American Surgical Association, April 2-4, I946, Hot Springs, Virginia.

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