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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    which can be heard at some distance. It is a cooing, croaking, belching sound, and receives the most fantastic explanations; the presence of live frogs in the stomach and the like is sometimes thought of. In hypochondriacs it gives rise to somber imaginations, and hysteri- cal persons take advantage of it to create a sen- sation or admiration by such ventriloquism. Baradat de Lacaze,* on examining patients from different wards who did not suffer from gastric disorders, found that he could produce the splashing sound regularly for two hours after liquid food had been ingested, and for six hours after full meals composed of both liquid and solid food. As we shall see presently, my own observations, made on a hundred patients, do not correspond with the results obtained by this author. Oser f observed that in cases of gastric atony the fluctuation of small waves could be elicited for four or five hours after a full meal, and Bar- *fitude sur le bruit de clapotage. Th^se de Paris, 1884. f Die Ursachen der Magenerweiterung, Wiener Klinik, 1881. [3]