Observations on a stridulous affection of the bowels : and on some varieties of spinal disease : with an appendix of cases / by J. Bradley.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on a stridulous affection of the bowels : and on some varieties of spinal disease : with an appendix of cases / by J. Bradley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    This noise, which is always under the govern- ment of respiration, is, for the most part, similar to the croaking of a frog, especially on inspiration; but on expiration somewhat less so, and conveying an idea as if the sound issued from water,* and often, before it ceases, like the plaintive tone of a dying animal, which is well described in the fol- lowing passage from the note above quoted:— Di- citur et r^il^av et t^u^£iu. At every act of inspiration, on laying the hand on the left umbilical region, about two inches, or two and a half inches, from the navel, in a trans- verse direction towards the spine of the ilium, a sensation is felt as if some liquid was forcibly spirted, or dashed, against the peritonaeum; but on expiration this is less perceptible. This cu- rious verberation is not always confined to the above point of the abdomen, as it will often be foimd two and a half or three inches from the navel, in the direction of the spleen ; and, during its presence, the patient seldom complains, either of pain in the part, or any on moderate pressure, or even from change of posture; but provided, however, the part be suddenly pushed by a mode- rate force, great pain is felt in the region of the stomach, insomuch as to cause fainting;—a xjir- cumstance that more particularly happens, when * On asking a little boy, seven years old, what this sound re- sembled, he immediately replied, it was like unto a frog in Avater.