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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    II METHODS FOR LOCATING THE PO- SITION OF THE STOMACH By ROBERT C. KEMP, M.D., New York. For an intelligent understanding of this sub- ject, it will be necessary to define those condi- tions which constitute an abnormality in the position of the stomach and to differentiate be- tween them. Dilatation of the stomach may be due to gen- eral atonia gastrica or exist without other ab- dominal relaxation, as the result of spasm, or of either benign or malignant stricture of the py- lorus, and there are varying degrees of motor insufficiency, even in marked dilatation of the stomach. If there is atony of the stomach with motor insufficiency, the patient having gastric symp- toms while the lower border of the stomach is defined at a level of the umbilicus, the lesser [23]