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

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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    one of the first methods employed in renal sur- gery. As always happens when a new operation springs up with the relative security of modern asepsia, the number of operators is increased, thoughtlessness creeps in, and the proper in- dications are not sufficiently studied to justify the reasonable propriety for surgical interfer- ence. Such was and is yet the case with nephropexy. Bazet, in the paper quoted al- ready, says failures, observations, and expe- rience, all carefully reported, threw a new light on the subject, and now such an authority as Israel has come to the determination systemati- cally to refuse operation in nephroptosia. In order to show once more how necessary it is to clear up the existing confusion in regard to medical terms, let us quote at hazard from a paper in The Journal of the A nierican Medical Association lox October 6, 1900: Nephropexy will often fail in wandering kidney brought about by gastroptosi^ and enteroptosis. The same paper treats of a case in which the right kidney descended so far as to touch the bladder, and was easily palpated in any position, but, as [166]