Arthur King

Treatment of Psychoneuroses

Gastroscopy should never eliminate the radiologist (Henning, Gutzeit, et al.) but should supplement his findings, as the lesser curve of the antrum, for instance, is better demonstrated by a barium meal. Once the instrument is passed the number of failures to examine the stomach is small. In three cases out of 216 examinations I failed to obtain a view. The introduction is comparatively easy, but the interpretation of this the most difficult of endoscopic methods requires a great deal of experience.-I am, etc., Royal Victoria Infirmary, NewcastleJ. DUDFIELD ROSE. upon-Tyne, Nov. 20.