“…This has been demonstrated in animal experimenta-:800 t-tion (Cross and Wangensteen, 1951;Lambert, 1962;Levrat et al, 1962;Moffat and Berkas, 1965;Gillison 6oog et al, 1972;Henderson et al, 19731, postoperatively 2 in patients following gastrectomy (Helsingen, 1960; -400 3 Cox, 1961;Kleckner et al, 1972) and in patients with -;:: achlorhydria (Palmer, 1960;Orlando and Bozymski, 1973). There is other evidence to show that the effect .loo of bile on gastric and oesophageal rnucosa is deleterious (Grant et al, 1951;Davenport, 1968;Geall et al, 1970;Black et al, 1971;Bedi et al, 1971;Safaie-Shirazi and DenBesten, 1973).…”