Surgical diagnosis v.2, Volume 2

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D. Appleton, 1911
 

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Page 277 - Poupart's ligament and midway between the anterior superior spine of the ilium and the spine of the pubes.
Page 510 - Sores or abscesses varying in size from that of a millet seed to...
Page 434 - The cystic areas vary in size from that of the head of a pin to that of an English walnut.
Page 27 - ... the anterior abdominal parietes, or across to the opposite side of the spinal column, moving through a circle with a diameter of eight or nine inches.
Page 184 - The spleen moves with the diaphragm with respiration, but less so than the liver. The condition of fullness or emptiness of the stomach and colon respectively has some effect upon the position of the spleen.
Page 133 - The differential blood count and its relation to the total leucocytosis is to-day the most valuable diagnostic and prognostic aid in acute surgical diseases that is furnished by any of the methods of blood examination. It is of value chiefly in indicating fairly consistently the existence of...
Page 665 - ... relation between the circumference of the flaccid penis and the caliber of the urethra was a good, practical working rule.
Page 174 - Again menstruation may become profuse, and sometimes a serous leucorrhcea may call the attention of the patient to the fact that something is wrong. The disease may gradually advance to a serious state, while the patient presents all the outward signs of vigorous health. As it is not at first attended with pain, the patient may think that the irregular or profuse menstruation and the serous discharge are only the symptoms of change of life. And...
Page 288 - Femoral hernia? are more common in women than in men, in the proportion of about three to one up to the age of fifty years, after which the proportions become nearly equal on account of the infrequent formation of hernia
Page 300 - The hernia occurs through the 300 obturator canal, which exists at the internal anterior portion of the obturator membrane for the passage of the obturator vessels and nerve.

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