Radiography and radio-therapeutics (1919) (14777826953)

Identifier: radiographyradio001knox (find matches)
Title: Radiography and radio-therapeutics
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiography Radiotherapy
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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ealis outwards and downwards to the left. In a markedly atonic stomach the distension commences in the sinus,the opaque meal collecting there in a half-moon form, while the walls of thebody remain in contact, and the fornix filled with gas preserves a more orless oval form. Gross changes in the contour of the stomach can be observedduring the ingestion of the opaque meal. The benign and the malignanthour-glass stomach differ entirely in filling phenomena from the normalstomach. The Motility of the Stomach.—Definite conclusion as to the motility ofthe stomach can be arrived at from the study of the swaying intensity andform of the peristaltic waves, and the time required for the opaque meal topass, when combined with the information given by the shape, position, andform of the residue remaining in the stomach. These peristaltic waves canbe shown on the fluorescent screen. The late Dr. Leonard showed that thereis a constant change in the length and breadth of the stomach during every-
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PLATE LXV.—Stomach axd Colon showing Visceroptosis. a, Abdomen before the meal; this shows the shadows caused by gas in the stomach and largeintestine. b, Stomach well filled, situated low down in the pelvis, elongated. c, Stomach emptying slowly about 2 hours later.