The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women (1907) (14784059832)

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. 115. Deep bimanual palpation with the patient in bed, showing the abdominal arm bftmeen the thighs. The other arm is partiallyhidden by the sheet. 108 THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION EXAMINATION ON BED. When a patient is seen at her home, sick in bed, the methods of explorationemployed are usually abdominal, vaginal, vagino-abdominal and, in some cases,recto-abdominal. A patient who is too sick to come to the office for a pelvicexamination, is usually suffering, not with a superficial disturbance that can beseen by inspection of the external genitals or through a speculum, but with somedeep-seated trouble, the nature of which can be determined only by deep internalpalpation. In such a case, the inspection of the genitals and the speculum exam-
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Fig. 116. Regular cross-bed position. The patient is turned directly across the bed, with the hips rest-ing on the edge of the bed and each foot on a chair. ination add nothing of importance to the information otherwise obtained, and asthey are particularly disagreeable to the patient they may be dispensed with. In such a case, the abdominal examination is first made. The patient is di-rected to move to the edge of the bed and the clothing is loosened and pushed upand down, to expose the abdomen, and the knees are drawn up to relax the ab-dominal muscles (Fig. 112). The abdomen is then examined by the various me-thods previously explained. The vaginal and vagino-abdominal examinations, with deep bimanual palpation,may be conveniently and satisfactorily conducted with but little disturbance tothe patient by observing the following directions, some of which were partiallycarried out in arranging for the abdominal examination: METHOD OF EXAMINATION ON BED 109 1. Direct the patient to mov