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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    For theoretical reasons it suggests itself as a prophylactic against perityphlitis, barbarously called by a horrible name. Certain observations, not completed yet, point to its usefulness in some cases of acne rosacea and also of tachycardia. Our medical onomatology is to a great ex- tent corrupt, illiterate, ridiculous, absurd; and this condition has caused confusion, as we no- tice in the case of the wrong interpretation of the simple word atonia. Well has Adamantios Korais said: NopLil^u) OTt ij 8t.a<pdopa 77^9 YX<ti(Tff-q<i elvai ffo/ysvijg vdffo^ T^p 8ia<pdopa^ rwv rjOwv y.ai xara tou<i ''hnoxpari- xoh<s xavova^ l^rj'sT xai ffuyyevr/ xac irapofMOcav depa- iieiav.* With the introduction of more and more new compounds, more and more irregularities came into our onomatology, because, so long as Greek was considered a dead language, no exact rules could be formulated to control the formation * I consider that the corruption of language is a disease closely allied to corruption of manners and demands also, according to the Hippocratic canons, a similar course of curative treatment- , [vii]