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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    adat de Lacaze stated that the splashing sound could be produced for two hours after small meals, and as long as six or seven hours after full meals, in all cases in which the passage of food from the stomach was retarded. Malibran questions whether this symptom is necessarily pathological; still, he admits its significance if it continues under certain con- ditions. The same author remarks that during infancy the splashing sound can be produced in the large intestine if distended by gas; that it can not be exactly localized by the ear in cases of infants. He denies that the splashing sound of the stomach and the gurgling noise of the intes- tine in infants can be distinguished with cer- tainty. He also reports six cases in which the autopsy had shown the possibility of error in this regard. In these six cases the splashing sound had been produced during life in the colon half filled with semi-liquid fecal matter. When the new methods of examination of the stomach were first introduced, it was assumed that the splashing sound elicited below the um- [4]