Twining also mentions these same properties, recommends it as a tonic and aperient of great benefit inatony of the digestive organs and expresses surprise that the Europeans make no use of it.
Atony of the muscularis of the intestine is admittedly the direct cause, in most instances, of constipation.
The best diet for cases of atony of the colon and rectum is one which is easily digested and has a moderate amount of waste, as a full colon will stimulate muscular action.
Atony of the muscular walls of the stomach may be a part of general muscular weakness and impaired nutrition.
The muscle of the bowel is in a state of fatty degeneration, and atony and dilatation of the gut follow.
If intestinal catarrh or atony is the cause, a persistent subordination of the life of the individual to the object in view will generally end in cure.
Rectal incontinence may be also due to tabes, while atony and constipation are sometimes noticed as a result of excessive intellectual exertion (DaCosta).
But little is known of the pathology of the purely functional forms of dyspepsia beyond what is expressed by the termsatony and asthenia.
Its presence had caused constipation, impaction of feces, and atony of the rectum.
In atony of the stomach the gastric mucous membrane responds feebly to the stimulus of food.
There is reason also to believe that atony of the muscular coats of the stomach may cause stagnation of the contents of the stomach and dilatation of the organ.
In all such cases we have what is popularly known as torpidity of digestion, and the condition described is that of atony of the stomach.
Atony of the intestinal wall leads to flatulence, colics, and constipation, and would be a cause of indigestion if none other existed.
If the case is one of atony of the colon due to impaction of the rectum and dilatation of the rectum and colon, without gastric or intestinal indigestion, a quite different regimen is required.
In both paralysis and atony the indication is carefully to prevent over-distension by the urine being retained too long, and at the same time to treat by appropriate means the cause which has produced or is keeping up the condition.
The patient is unable to empty the bladder, and the condition of atony gets increasingly worse.
If there is no obstruction to the flow of urine, the retention being due to atony or paralysis, a soft catheter is passed and the water drawn off.
That disorder, he said, depended upon an atony in the digestive organs against which was periodically set up a reparative effort in form of a{190} joint inflammation.
Ether was stored in the medulla, and circulated in a double way in the body; spasm was the consequence of too strong, atony of too feeble, influx of ether.
Rounded scybalous masses are common in habitual constipation, and indicate atony of the muscular coat of the intestine.
It is especially deficient in dilatation of the stomach due to atony of the gastric wall or to pyloric obstruction, either benign or malignant.
As to the immediate origin of this lesion, it may be said to arise from a variety of causes, such as atony of the rectum, or other conditions leading to constipated habits.
General weakness and atony of the body affects the stomach in like degree, and, if the muscles of the abdominal wall be much wasted, they become too weak to support the abdominal viscera in place.
This is the official bark in the pharmacopoeia, which is used as a stomachic and bitter tonic useful in gastric atony and general debility.
Most of the species of cherry have been used by white men for the bitter principle contained, which suits it for use as a stomachic and bitter tonic in gastric atony and general debility.
By this method we increase the chance of an atony of the uterus, as the discharge of the liquor amnii is not under due control.
