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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    neous connective tissue, diastasis of the recti muscles. The sequence is lessening of intra- abdominal pressure. This makes it possible for the intestines to yield to the pressure of gases from within, and thus atony of stomach and bowels is generated, which condition favors their sagging. According to Aufrecht, nephroptosia is the beginning, the primary stage, and primary re- quirement of enteroptosia. Nephroptosia orig- inates either spontaneously in inherent fiabbi- ness of ligaments or through pressure on the part of the liver consequent upon lacing, etc. Displacement of the kidney leads, in conse- quence of its connection with the duodenum by means of the duodeno-renal ligament, to trac- tion of the duodenum and interference with its function. The influence upon the stomach by the dragging duodenum leads to atony. The persistently downward gliding kidney likewise impinges upon the right curve of the colon and hinders normal peristalsis by its volume no less than by traction exercised by the hepatocolic ligaments. The consequence is stagnation of [185]