What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.

  • London Medical Society of Observation
Date:
1853
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    jralar, nodulated (equally or unequally?);—coiisiatence; hard, soft, elastic, impressible, ductnating:; giving the idea of limbs or other parts of a fa-tus;—its eonneiion with known organs, as ntenu, bladder, or rectum;— effect of straining or labour-pains on its position or ten- sion ;—mobility or fixedness of tumour.—Tenderness. consuteoce. cuonexioot. mobiUtj. tendemem. Examitiaiion fhrouqk the Vaffina and i by Abdominal M’all conjoimd. I 234. Contintdiy and connexion or otherwise of ' Continuity of organs and tumours felt through vagina, with others : lunKiur. felt above brim of pelvis;—tran.vmissiun of impulse or ! flnetuation from one to the other; elevation of the one I accompanied or not by elevation of the other?—descent | or not of pelvic tumour on pre.-^iug downwards abdo- . miual tumour?—Size of mass felt between two hands, i §Ue of tumour. —Effect of elevation of abdominal tumour upon the ' position or mobility of pelvic organs or tumour. jLxamiHation hy the touch, through the Rectum. Rectum. 235. Introduction of fingers—facility with which permitted; passage of finger along can^ opposed, by accumulated foral matter, by foreign bodies, by com- pression from tumour externally, by stricture; close- ness of stricture ; extent to which finger can pass,— Introdnction of bougie. (See also 126.) 230. Vierut: — position; size, form, etc., of snch parts as can be rrache<l; mobility ;—its fnndus, form, relation in position to pelvic tumours, etc.—Orariet and Fallopian tube* (if capable of being recognised); —position ; mobility ; size; form ; condition of sur- face ; coiisisteuce; pulsation of arteries ; tendemrss, etc. 287. Bladder I—its relation in position to fimdus of uterus and pelvic tumours. 23S. Tumour;—its position, relatively to rectum and pelvis; its characters <]>articulars as 233). J Intruduelion of of bomde. I l-tsnu. Ovarios and Fallu|ilan tubes. Bladder. Tumour. Examination through the Rectum and Abdominal Wall conjoined. Eramiuotion by Rectum and .Ibdonumti H'aR, 239. (Particulars as 234).