Using beer as a re-test breakfast

The use of repeated breakfasts to determine the secretory function of the stomach has been known for a long time. Back in 1901, Zimnitsky reported on his experiments with repeated feeding of dogs operated on according to the Heidenhain-Pavlov method, which were given 200 grams of white bread for the first test breakfast and after 2 hours again 200 grams of white bread; later Zimnitsky reported on re-feeding two patients and two healthy people in parallel, who were given one breakfast, consisting of 35 grams. white bread, 250 k. from. tea and after an hour the same breakfast was given again. In 1922 and 1923, Vandorfy published his data on the use of refreshed breakfasts as “Belastungsprobe *. In 1922 prof. Zimnitsky reports on his method of studying the gastric cell and during the last decade the method of re-breakfast (meat broth) was promoted by his students to determine the types of gastric cells (normal type, asthenic, inert, isosecretory and torpor) and pointed out the reversibility of these types.