Is nervous dyspepsia a disease sui generis? / by Achilles Rose.

  • Rose, Achilles, 1839-1916.
Date:
1906
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    Reprinted from the l Journal fo IS NERVOUS D ISEASE SUI GENE r By Achilles Rose, M. D., New York. The classification of stomach neuroses in medical literature has had different periods. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many forms of gastric disorders were called nervous dyspepsy. With the development of pathologicoanatomical dis- cipline during the middle of the nineteenth century anatomical conditions as the cause of what was called nervous dyspepsy were found, and the existence of purely nervous dyspepsy was denied. Again, in 1879, Leube formulated a system of description of nervous dyspepsy which is entirely theoretical and very indistinct. Many writers then assumed that cases of so called nervous dyspepsy for which no anatomical basis could be discovered, were manifes- tations in the stomach of general neurasthenia or hysteria. Studying the relations of atonia gastrica to gas- tric disorders we arrive at the conclusion that many cases which have been diagnosticated as hysteria, neurasthenia, or nervous dyspepsy, are nothing but manifestations of atonia gastrica. The physiological function of the diversified crosswise fibrous arrangement of the three flat mus- cles of the abdominal wall, supported by the rectus abdominis, consists in preserving the physiological position of the abdominal viscera, simultaneously regulating the movements of the fluid contents of these viscera, controlling to some extent the secre- tion, the circulation, and the innervation. When the abdominal wall becomes atonic, when Copyright, 1906, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Co. I-A