Singultus gastricus nervosus / by Anthony Bassler.

  • Bassler, Anthony, 1874-
Date:
1910
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Credit: Singultus gastricus nervosus / by Anthony Bassler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    /&/?■ Reprinted 8U%u, /• l Journal for SINGULTUS NERVOSUS. By Anthony Bassler, M. D., New York, Visiting Gastroenterologist to the People’s Hospital, and Attending Physician to St. Mark’s Clinic. Singultus, or hiccough, is a symptom expressed as a sound made by the sudden and involuntary contraction of the diaphragm, and the simultaneous contraction of the glottis which arrests the rising air in the trachea. Depending upon its cause, sin- gultus may last for a few minutes or several hours or be continuous, and also, it may recur during days and months. Among the most numerous conditions in which it is present may be mentioned the dis- eases of the abdominal viscera (gastritis, primary and secondary ecstatic gastric atony, gastric carci- noma) ; enteritis, internal and external intestinal obstruction or other causes of intestinal obstruction or paresis (such as the postoperative cases), ap- pendicitis, cholera; pancreatitis (usually suppura- tive); disease of the liver; peritonitis (especially when it involves the upper abdomen and the peri- tonaeum diaphragmatis; and tympanites (such as the idiopathic dilatations or paretic conditions of sections of the hollow viscera of the alimentary canal) ;—diseases of the nervous system—viz., epi- lepsy, tumor of the brain, meningitis, hydrocephalus, shock, mental emotions, and hysteria; and certain constitutional conditions, such as diabetes, gout, chronic nephritis, some cases of gangrene of the lung, diaphragmatic pleurisy, dysmenorrhoea and pregnancy, alcoholism, Addison’s disease, typhoid Copyright, 1910, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.