Document Type : Letter to Editor
Authors
1 Department of Persian Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2 Hakim Syed Ziaul Hasan Government Unani Medical College, Bhopal, India
3 Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
Although enteral feeding and nutritional delivery by
enema are well known to exist since ancient times, the old
history of gastric feeding is less investigated. Most reports
of the history of gastric feeding mention Capivacceus as
the first one who reported the use of orogastric feeding in
1598 (1, 2)
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