Firstly, they are of use in simple debility and in atonic dyspepsia.

During the periods of calm, on the contrary, the left side also is atonic.

An excellent medicine in chlorosis, hysteria, and atonic amenorrha.

In general terms it may be said that all conditions of depressed vitality predispose to the varied forms of atonic dyspepsia.

Exhaustion of the nerves of organic life strongly predisposes to the atonic forms of dyspepsia.

Buchard claims that atonic dilatation of the stomach is a very frequent result of an adynamic state of the general system.

These express simply certain states of the system with which atonic dyspepsia is so frequently found associated.

Some of these general conditions were pointed out while speaking of atonic forms of dyspepsia.

Like atonic dyspepsia, gastralgia is apt to affect anmic persons, and notably anmic females at menstrual periods.

The largest number of cases of atonic dilatation is met with between thirty and forty years of age.