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

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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Credit: Atonia gastrica (abdominal relaxation) / by Achilles Rose, M.D. and Robert Coleman Kemp, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reason why floating kidney occurs more fre- quently on the right than on the left side. According to Meinert, the great majority of enteroptosias are caused by tight-lacing, no m?t- ter whether effected by corsets or waist-bands. Some malformations of the thorax act in the same manner. The same view is maintained by Kelling, save that he admits that it is the weight of the liver and the stomach that may drag them down, whenever the space within the abdomi- nal cavity has become too large for its contents, as after childbirth, in emaciation, and the occur- rence of hernia. Huber also makes tight-la- cing responsible for the origin of enteroptosia; likewise Fleiner, altho the latter attributes the origin of stomach collapse to the diminution of ventral space through pressure of corsets, with consequent diminution of food supply, emacia- tion, and vacant space into which the stomach can relapse. Meinert makes enteroptosia de- pendent upon clothing. Every dress worn by young women before the fifteenth year, fast- ened to the thorax instead, as alone correct, of [i8i]