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

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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    through considerable changes in the course of years. At the very beginning the numerous dyspeptic and nervous complaints accompanying floating kidney attracted attention. The fre- quent coincidence of dilated stomach and float- ing kidney did not pass unobserved, before Gle- nard formulated the conception of enteroptosia. This indicated a marked advance in the domain of neurasthenia and nervous dyspepsia. To him they were familiar pictures, these grace- fully built, lean, pale young men and women with dyspeptic and nervous complaints—one is almost tempted to say with nervous facial ex- pression—presenting on examination thin, soft abdominal walls, a flabby, splashing stomach, and a palpable kidney, mostly on the right, sometimes on both sides. Landau declares retroflexion of a movable uterus to be one of the symptoms of enteroptosia. According to Ag6- ron, pronounced gastroenteroptosia may have in its wake far-reaching disturbances of nutri- tion, under the guise of anemia or chloriasis, caused by high-grade motory disturbances of the sunken stomach. [192]