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

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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    digestive troubles as the more frequent symp- toms. Persistent constipation also obtains. He joins Oser, Nothnagel, Leube, and Ewald in opining that in the majority of cases of gas- troectasis and mobile kidney it is a matter of coincidence. The first one to describe the whole round of symptoms which occur in enteroptosia as a dis- ease sui generis was Glenard. In one of his first publications {Reviie de Mddecine, January, 1887) he says: Clinical observation goes to prove that enteroptosia in the same and identi- cal patient is diagnosticated and treated with- out favorable result, according to the various phases of this trouble, as anemia, then as metri- tis (by cauterization), or as prolapse of the uterus (where pessaries come into use), then as dyspepsia, then as rheumatism, still further on as gall-stone colic, then as masked carcinoma, still later as a neurosis, as hypochondria, as hysteria, and, finally, as neurasthenia. At length the physician must make way for the quack, unless the patient prefers to forego all treatment. [iSS]