It is not my intention to study in this paper the condition spoken of as congenital pyloric stenosis in infants, but to consider stenosis of the pylorus in children who have passed the period of infancy. The study of the condition in older children must, however, embrace those patients in whom the condition has persisted from infancy into later childhood, as well as those cases in which infancy has been free from all symptoms of pyloric stenosis, but in which the symptoms appeared months or years later.
At the outset of this study one is immediately impressed by the fact that while medical literature is crowded with articles on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis and pyloric spasm in infants, there has been, as far as I am aware, little written exclusively on the condition in older children.
The discussion in all of these papers deals with the problem as to whether