Original Article

Anticholinergic Anesthesia

Authors: CLARENCE W. LEGERTON JR. M.D.

Abstract

The anticholinergic drugs given orally appear to have little if any effect in the control of the secretion of acid. Rather their effect seems to be that of an anesthetic in the presence of peptic ulcer, merely controlling pain. The danger of their use lies in the suppression of the warning signal of pain upon recurrence of an ulcer or of some of its complications.

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