The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women (1907) (14784073132)

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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. 126. A large Ventral Hernia at thesite of an operation scar. (Hirst-Diseases of Women.)
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Fig. 127. The Contour of a Relaxed Abdominal Fig. 128. Same patient (Fig. 127). Standing. Notice Wall, with the patient Recumbent the marked Projection of the Relaxed Abdominal Wall. 124 GYNECOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS Fig. 129. Median grooving of the abdominal wallwhere there is Separation oi the Recti Muscles. Thewoman is represented as lying on her back. (Webster—■Diseases of Women.) large and so near the surface that itwas thought necessary to open itat once. It was opened as far aspossible from the median incision.The patient recovered. Ventral Hernia. There is a dis-tinct localized protrusion, which ismost pronounced when standing orsitting, and diminishes when thepatient lies down. Coughing makesthe mass prominent and gives a dis-tinct impulse to it. The mass is re-sonant on percussion, when contain-ing intestine, and is partially orwholly reducible. When the massis reduced, the margin of the open-ing may be felt. Fig. 125 shows anumbilical hernia. Fig. 126 shows aventral hernia in a