Atonia gastrica (abdominal relaxation) / by Achilles Rose, M.D. and Robert Coleman Kemp, M.D.

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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    occurrence—are in only a very small number of cases really related to this displacement; these symptoms are caused mostly by general enterop- tosia or neurasthenia or affections of the gen- erative system. He speaks against the popu- larization of this affection, because many women who have heard of floating kidney and all the ghost stories about them, keep these horrors in their minds and have no peace until they are operated on. L. Bazet, in the Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of CaHfornia, 1898, gives a resume of the condition and advances of renal surgery up to that date. He says : There are patients—they are mostly women—in whom the floating kidney is but a part of a complex condition, where enteroptosia and neurasthenia appear to play the principal role. Here all the viscera are altered in their suspension, and these patients are nervous in the proper mean- ing of the word. When in such cases nephro- pexy is performed there is absolutely no thera- peutic benefit. Nephropexy in cases of floating kidney was [165]