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

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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    thenia and hysteria. Manifestations character- istic of enteroptosia, as described by Glenard and Fereol, are merely sequences of organic disturbances, analogous to those occurring in other diseases. As the pathological processes relate largely to the alimentary canal, it is ex- plainable why it so frequently presents itself in the guise of nervous dyspepsia. Enteroptosia is not a clearly defined pathological entity by any means. Boas finds it difficult to exclude evidence of a functional neurosis. On the other hand, the organic basis of Ewald's nervous dyspepsia could not be gainsaid. Kelling finds the clinical importance of gas- troptosia in the increasingly difficult work of the stomach through increase in the Hiibho- he (Oser). (The translation is lift height, but I do not know what it means. — R.) Furthermore, that food in its onward prog- ress through the duodenum has to be pushed forward in a tube bent in an acute angle. The revulsion and churning up of contents is car- ried on by a stomach, previously resting on [190]