Gynecological Diagnosis

Front Cover
D. Appleton, 1910 - 656 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 496 - Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
Page v - tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true: a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Page 250 - If a number of uteri, from women between the twenty-fifth and fiftieth years be examined by the simple means of sectioning with a knife, in a large proportion of these uteri a number of small rounded fibroids, resembling knots in wood, will appear, their whiteness being in strong contrast to the surrounding muscle tissue. These discrete bodies, in many instances no larger than mustard seeds, are in histologic structure identical with the fully grown tumors.
Page 167 - ... often assume a spiral or corkscrew-like appearance. Finally, six or seven days before the beginning of menstruation, the glands rapidly enlarge and become tortuous, the cells bulge into the lumen, the epithelium becomes higher and broader. and the lumen is filled with a mucous secretion. These gland changes are much more marked in the deeper portion of the mucosa than in the superficial, so that there is produced a well-marked differentiation into a superficial compact and a deep spongy layer....
Page 352 - THE VAGINA. The vagina is a mucous slit in the pelvic floor, extending from the hymen to the cervix uteri, and lying between the urethra and bladder in front and the rectum behind. In the upright posture it makes an angle of about 60° with the horizon, ie, it is nearly parallel to the pelvic brim.
Page 95 - In an examination for suspected pregnancy two fingers of the left hand are introduced into the vagina, and pressure made on the abdomen by the right hand.
Page 601 - ... declare war. They are not now to be persuaded that this government can do what it pleases with America. . It has been stated, with an air of triumph, by the partisans of your ministers...
Page 73 - I counted 134 to the minute, and found them most distinctly audible, by the stethescope, in the lower left-hand corner of the umbilical region, on a line drawn from the umbilicus to the left anterior superior spinous process of the ilium. April 24, 1883. — The...
Page 89 - With the patient in the dorsal or lithotomy position, a broad-bladed Sims speculum is introduced into the vagina; the anterior lip of the cervix is firmly grasped with a tenaculum forceps, and the cervix is pulled down as near the vulvar orifice as possible. The nurse or the assistant stands by with the cautery already heated.
Page 422 - ... called, is that, upon which the voice most frequently dwells, to which it usually returns when wearied, and upon which a sentence generally commences, and very frequently ends, while, at the same time, there is a considerable play of the voice above and below it. This note may be high or low.

Bibliographic information