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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    with the normal mutual pressure of the intes- tines. Dietl was the first to point out the frequent occurrence of floating kidney and a definite group of symptoms caused by the same. Chro- back first demonstrated the connection between movable kidney and hysteria. Hertzka early reported, with regard to dislocated kidneys, that the symptoms exhibited by the patient were so manifold and divergent as to cause the physi- cian to overlook the possibility of this disease. Accompanying pain was probably consequent upon traction upon the blood-vessels and nerve- plexuses. According to Lindner, floating kidney is the most frequent abnormal condition of the female body, and this influence upon a great percen- tage of diseases to be observed in women is yet not generally known and properly estimated. The symptom symposium in palpable kidney is, according to Kuttner, very unstable and du- bious. He enumerates pain, neuralgias, dizzi- ness, fainting spells, high-grade nervousness, hysteria, hypochondria, heart palpitation, and [187]