Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Jamieson Boyd Hurry
Date:
1913
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VII.—ONE DISORDER MAY DISTURB SEVERAL FUNCTIONS AND PREVENT COMPENSATION Example : Atonic Dyspepsia, In atonic dyspepsia the various functions of secretion, absorption and motility are simultaneously impaired, and unable to assist each other. If secretion were alone involved, some increase of peristalsis would accelerate the passage of the food-pulp through the pylorus to be digested in the intestines and thus compensate for the deficient gastric secretion. But owing to the association of several functional disorders, an obstinate Circle is created. VIII.—A DISPLACED ORGAN MAY CAUSE MECHANICAL DISTURBANCE WHICH AGGRAVATES THE DISPLACEMENT Examples : Retroversion of Gravid Uterus. A retroverted gravid uterus may be so impacted as to press on the urethra, cause retention of urine and distention of the bladder. The distended bladder increases the retroversion and impaction.