Discussion on the nature of visceroptosis, usually described as Glenard's disease / introduced by Arthur Keith.

  • Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Discussion on the nature of visceroptosis, usually described as Glenard's disease / introduced by Arthur Keith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the f DISCU, OF VI DESC Gazette, 1909], ATURE UALLY ARD'S sDlSffASEy IntroducerT b^ASL'^tr^KfeiTH, M.D., Conservator of Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, England Dr. Head and Gentlemen, It is very pleasant to return to the London Hospital and see round me so many familiar and happy faces. My visit is made easy for me by your having chosen the subject of discussion— viz., the subsidence, or sagging of the abdominal and thoracic viscera—a condition not uncommon in adult men and women. The little I know of the matter was learned in the dissecting room of this College, for the office I now hold offers few opportunities of studying the condition. My attention was drawn to the study of viscer- optosis in the following manner. In a fairly large number of the dissecting room subjects the liver was seen to be remarkably flattened so that its lower margin projected one or two inches below the ribs into the right lumbar region, part of it often attenuated so as to form a Riedel’s lobe. On the projecting part was situated the gall bladder, usually containing gall stones. The flattening of the liver was usually accompanied by a downward displacement of the right kidney, an elongation of the stomach, and a diverticulum was often to be seen in the second stage of the duodenum, near the point of entrance of the common bile duct. The condition, although a very common one, had received very little attention