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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    able belly bandage. Evvald dwells upon the importance of emptying the bowels by saline aperients. Stifler adds the use of carbonated steel baths, and claims to have had success in one case by electrolytic treatment. In addition to bandages and belts, Huf- schmidt recommends massage, faradization, gymnastics, and hydrotherapeutics (in this he is supported by Boas), and favors also forced feeding; he is indorsed by Kelling, Strauss, and Kellreuther. The latter condemns the pad in floating kidney, and dwells upon the fact that prime importance attaches to the actual lifting of the pendent abdomen by the belly bandage. Ostertag, in the construction of his belly bandage, lays stress upon the bandage efficaciously raising the sagging lower abdomen and keeping it firmly and continuously fixed, so as to hinder any descent of the parts. He aims to accomplish this by giving support by the bandage to the bony structures, both above and below. Langerhans favors the abdominal bandage only in the so-called Landau cases, and for the rest recommends gymnastics. At [200]