Acute Pancreatitis and Methaemalbuminaemia

Lodge. ' The incidence in children dying between 1 month and 1 year is, however, significantly lower than in neonates (x2=9.59). As no other factor was found in the clinical history or at necropsy to account for the low incidence in' infants aged 1 month to 1 year, it seems likely that the low incidence of oesophagitis in this age group is due to the low acidity of their gastric juice. These findings consolidate Lodge's2 experimental finding on rats that gastric juice will exert its erosive effect on the stratified squamous epithelium of the oesophagus only provided it is acid.-I am, etc.,