The Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Abdomen

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Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852 - 276 páginas
 

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Página 19 - In the healthy robust male, the movement of the sternum and of the thoracic and intermediate ribs, from the first to the seventh, is from -02 to -07...
Página 43 - ... valve. My own preference would be to perforate the ventricle of the right heart by introducing the needle through the fourth interspace, about one and a half or two inches to the left of the median line of the sternum. Dr. Westbrook's opinion, however, is entitled to more deference than mine, because he has studied the subject with special reference to cardicentesis, while my special investigations have been limited to the consideration of pericardicentesis.
Página 19 - The ordinary lateral expansion of the diaphragmatic or lower ribs is greater, and the extreme expansion is usually less, than the respective ordinary and extreme expansion of the thoracic or upper ribs. The expansion of the second ribs is usually alike on both sides; below, all the inspiratory movements, especially those over the heart, are usually somewhat less on the left side than on the right, both during ordinary and extreme inspiration.

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