A bedside manual of physical diagnosis / [Charles Cowan].

  • Cowan, Charles, 1806-1868.
Date:
1842
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Credit: A bedside manual of physical diagnosis / [Charles Cowan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tinetly felt by gradually pressing the cheek upon ' the abdomen and leaving it in contact for some time. The rolling over of the child may be often felt, especially if the child be dead; the mother her- self not unfrequently complains of this sensation. Vaginal examination. The results are seldom satisfactory before the fifth month. Introduce the fore-finger of the right hand (the patient standing) into the vagina, and place it between the os tincee and the pubis, and, with a jerk upward, we may sometimes so tilt the de- pending head of the child as to make it rise through the liquor amnii, when it again falls down with a slight shock upon the finger. It is useful — at the same moment to place the left hand over the uterus. © | A bluish tint of the vagina, increased pul- sations of the vaginal and uterine arteries, with a peculiar state of the urinary secretion, have been recently referred to as early evidences of pregnancy; but their consideration does not come within the scope or intention of the present volume. FRACTURES, ETC. The stethoscope applied over the place of frac- ture, on the slightest motion of the part, conveys