A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Fig. 5125.—Partial Ptosis of the Viscera in a Woman Afjetl Forty-flreYears. The duorlenuiu descended as far as tbe brim of tbe pelvis.(Keith.) itiug, llatulence, constipation, and throbbing in the abdomen. The distress, which in pronounced cases is forthe most part constant and referred to the upper quad- I REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. , rants, is promptly relieved on assuming the horizontalposition, only to return again on ge


A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . Fig. 5125.—Partial Ptosis of the Viscera in a Woman Afjetl Forty-flreYears. The duorlenuiu descended as far as tbe brim of tbe pelvis.(Keith.) itiug, llatulence, constipation, and throbbing in the abdomen. The distress, which in pronounced cases is forthe most part constant and referred to the upper quad- I REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. , rants, is promptly relieved on assuming the horizontalposition, only to return again on getting up and walkingabout. Hence some persons make tliis complaint prom-. FiG. 5136.—Lateral View of the Same Subject. (Keith.) inent while speaking of their symi)toms. It is interest-ing, in this connection, to note that constipation, whichin one case tinder the writers observation was very ob-stinate, at different peiiods always disappeared when thepatient lay in bed for a few da}S. It has been seen that the subjects of enteroptosis arejnostly women. Those in whom the condition is marked


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