Identifier: diagnosistreatmecros (find matches)
Title: The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crossen, Harry Sturgeon, 1869-
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Gynecology Gynecology Women Generative organs, Female
Publisher: St. Louis : Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 22. Another abdominal surface, with the ribs and crests outlined.This patient is rather stout. Notice how much the land marks differ fromthose in Fig. 21. the area of tenderness has been accurately located, we know what organs are likelyto be affected, and the further differentiation between affections of those organsmay be proceeded with. Regions of the Abdomen. For convenience in designating the location of tender-ness or of a mass, the abdomen is divided into regions. There are many methods METHOD OF PALPATION 19 of division. A simple and useful one is the division of the surface into quad-rants, by an imaginary horizontal line passing through the umbilicus and a verticalline through the same point (Fig. 27). This is very convenient for designating in a general way the location of lar^e
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Fig. 23. Palpation of the abdomen. First step. Fig. 24. Palpation. Depressing the wall with the Hand flat on abdominal surface. fingers of one hand, in various situations.

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