Morton, Edward Reginald, 1867- · New York : E.B. Treat & Co. · leaf 213
th bismuth is given. containing Fluid. It is then possible to see if the stomach is full of fluid (secretion). Its horizontal level can be seen and splashing elicited by shaking the patient. If opaque food is given it drops at once to the lower border, being heavier than the fluid which keeps the… … ATONIC STOMACH. 173 Again, we may find the lowest part of the stomach wellbelow the umbilicus and the tonicity apparently quitegood. This is what is called gastroptosis, and is not to beconfounded with atony. Plate X. is an instance of thiscondition; Plate XI. is a lateral view of the same case. In…
