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

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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    Leo disputes the causal relation between gas- troptosia and chloriasis. Like Briiggemann, he acknowledges that the lower margin of the stomach sags to abnormal depth in chloriasis; this in consequence of atony, not of gastropto- sia.* It is true that in the chlorotic who have worn a corset gastroptosia is demonstrable, but chloriasis is by no means rare in young women who have never worn a corset. Owing to the widespread use of the corset, stomach sagging is an almost habitual abnormality of the female sex, only a fraction of whom ever suffer from chloriasis. Bial, according to whom gastroptosia in men is anything but a rare occurrence, on close ex- amination finds conditions everywhere sufficient to explain the occurrence of anomalies, without having recourse to the effects of simultaneous changes of position. That an anomaly of so little moment in the case of men should be of such far-reaching consequence in women is peculiar, to say the least. Perhaps the cause *Bruggemann's distinction between atonia and gas- troptosia is incomprehensible. 13 [193]