Changes in the Gastro-Intestinal Tract in Deficiency States

Anaemia and the Gastro-intestinal Tract

“…Mackie and Pound (1935), for example, found evidence of deficiency states in 63 per cent. of seventy-five cases of chronic ulcerative colitis, although a history of a defective dietary was seldom elicited.-I am, etc., BENJAMIN National Food Policy SIR,-I was only a little less astonished at the contents of the special report, " Towards a National Food Policy," than I was at the commendatory terms in which it is referred to in the Journal of July 16 (p. 141).…”

The Rate of Absorption of Iodide and Glycine From the Gastro-Intestinal Tract in Normal Persons and in Disease Conditions

“…The present study is not concerned particularly with the first, an outstanding example of which is diminution or loss of the "intrinsic factor" from the stomach, which is responsible for Addisonian pernicious anemia. The absorptive mechanism may be at fault in a variety of ways, for example, when diarrhea is present, or when there are pathological changes, such as ulcerations of the bowel, infections, stricture or tumor, which may, by mechanisms not well understood, affect motility or produce mucosal changes (1,2,3).…”