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

  • Rose, Achilles, 1839-1916.
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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    by means of a few slight tappings on the abdomen. Altho not in all, but in most, cases gastrop- tosia is the cause of dyspepsia, in extreme cases we find reflex vomiting and reflex cough. We can obtain conclusive evidence of the relation of gastroptosia to dyspepsia, and the reflex symptoms, by relieving the gastroptosia by means of plaster strapping, as I have described it. With the relief of the gastroptosia by strapping we relieve, as a rule, dyspepsia and reflex symptoms. In a great many cases in which the splashing sound can be produced without presenting dys- peptic symptoms, we may find nervous disor- ders, especially so-called neurasthenia. It is a fact, altho not yet generally known, that nerv- ous derangements, caused by gastroptosia, are as frequent, numerous, and manifold as nervous derangements caused by uterine displacements; just as in cases of what we might call ptoseo- dyspepsia we can show the relation to gastrop- tosia, so can we show the relation of gastrop- tosia by relieving the ptosis by means of the [14]