Abstract
Summary and Conclusions
Local topical anesthetics, nupercaine, elixir probutylin, and pontocaine, were administered into the stomach or duodenum of 9 human subjects. Gastric and/or duodenal motility was recorded oscillographically and found to be unchanged in 6 patients; minor and seemingly inconstant changes occurred in 3 of the 9 subjects.
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