Effect of Penicillin on Oral Bacteria

Abstract

We believe this to be easier than abdominal total gastrectomy as practised by Lahey and others. Decrease in the time of anaesthesia alone would seem to justify it, because patients with this disease tolerate anaesthesia badly. Our preference is for inhalational anaesthesia with endo- tracheal intubation, and if controlled respiration is employed the lung should be inflated at half-hourly intervals to minimize the risk of post-operative collapse. Bronchoscopy at the end of operation may in some instances be a wise additional measure.