HISTORY OF PERFORATED DUODENAL AND GASTRIC-ULCERS

Perforated peptic ulcer as a disease entity has been known since 167 B C. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment strategies for perforated peptic ulcer disease were not developed until the latter half of the ninetee nth century. The history of the gradual evolution of the various forms of treatment adopted for the conditions over the last century and a h alf is described.