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Excerpt from Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs, Vol. 2: Lectures on Diseases of the Stomach
Gentlemen, I will now show you on a female patient how easily this method of expression, as we have called it, fulfils its purpose (demonstration). Although in this instance the result is so speedy and effectual, I must not conceal from you the thct that in isolated cases expression does not produce the desired result. For instance, when the abdominal wall is so reland that abdominal pressure cannot be applied; and, again, in cases where the patient has no control over his muscles, and is unable to press when desired to do so, or perhaps makes convulsive efforts to cough. It may happen that this method of expression fails on first or second trial, or possibly altogether, but taken all in all, this hardly occurs in five per cent. Of the cases in which it is employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
