Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)
Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is inflated the lesser curvature^ in casesof gastroptosis^ is visible midway between the ensiform process and thenavel^ or just in the neighborhood of the ambilicus/ With the aid of thegastrodiaphane we can transluminate the stomach and make out the contourof the same. This has been found a valuable means of diagnosis. The redilluminated area can be plainly made out if the room is darkened. Thefollowing case illustrates this condition as met with in practice:— Rosie B. was first seen by me when 13 years old. Family History.—Father and mother living and well. She has six sisters andone brother living, all in good health. There is no family history of syphilis, rheuma-tism, or tuberculosis. One child of 3 years died from pneumonia complicating measles. Personal History.—She was a breast-fed child and appeared to be well de-veloped. She has had measles and with it bronchitis. Menstruation appeared whenshe was 13 years old and lasted seven days. She has complained for the last two h
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Fig. 62.— (a) Xormal Position of Stomach; (h) Position of Stomach in aCase of Gastroptosis. (Original.) years of headaches, pains in the back and abdomen, loss of appetite, and does notsleep well. She is very nervous and has had a peculiar unilateral twitching in-volving the right arm and shoulder. This twitching appears spasmodically and isexaggerated when her attention is directed to it. She complains of cold extremi-ties, and has an occasional cough. No expectoration. The cough appears to beof the same character as that seen in adults which is described as a hysterical cough.The chemical examination^ of the gastric contents syphoned off one hour afterfeeding a test meal of tea and zwieback gave the following: 25 cubic centimetersobtained, color greenish yellow, very tenacious, ptyalin present in saliva. Reactionof gastric juice acid, no free hydrochloric present, lactic acid absent, peptonespresent, suj^ar present, starch present, combined hydrochloric acid prosont. estimatedby t

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