Identifier: diagnosistreatmecros (find matches)
Title: The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crossen, Harry Sturgeon, 1869-
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Gynecology Gynecology Women Generative organs, Female
Publisher: St. Louis : Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 131. Patient with mailved Separation of the Recti. The photograph fromwhich this illustration was made, was taken as the upper part of the body was beingraised from the table. The physicians fist is buried in the gap between the muscles,which are contracting. In this case there was pronounced pendulous abdomen. Asthe patient lay relaxed on her back, the distance between the muscles at the level ofthe umbilicus measured five and one half inches. (Webster—Diseases of Women.)
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Fig. 1.32. Tympanites, mistaken for pregnancy by the patient. The small figure in the upper corner showsthe internal condition as determined by the bimanual examination, the uterus being of normal size.(Edgar—Practice of Obstetrics.) 126 GYNECOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS stretched laterally and remains so. This gives a wide weak place between therecti muscles, in which the tissues are lax and thin (Fig. 129). When the patientraises her head and shoulders from the pillow, or otherwise makes strong intra-ab-nominal pressure, there is bulging of this weak portion of the wall between therecti (Fig. 130). In such a case, the hand may be sunk deeply into the abdomenbetween the separated recti muscles (Fig. 131). B. Abdominal Prominence from Something in Intestines. Gas (tj^mpanites). This may cause marked prominence when associated withrelaxation of abdominal wall. There is no distinct mass felt on palpation. Per-cussion shows hyper-resonance over all the abdomen. There are usually symptoms indicatin

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