Contribution to the study of intestinal rest and movement

During the last two years, as opportunity has permitted, I have been engaged in an experimental study of the various factors which contribute to movement or rest of the small intestine. This research has furnished me with much information of an analytical character, but it seemed desirable to supplement and, in some degree, to control this, by investigating the general conditions which influence such changes in a healthy animal in which all the functions exerting an influence upon the viscera are in full operation. The most promising means for effecting this purpose appeared to be the establishing of a Vella’s fistula which would permit of thorough examination without the necessity of subsequent employment of anæsthetics or of operative procedure.