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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ns, keeps the skin in an irritated, unhealthy condition, particu-larly in cold weather. When rubber gloves are used, all the infectious material isremoved with the gloves, which are boiled and are then ready for the next examina-tion. Fig. 52 shows the position of the fingers ordinarily preferable in the vaginal andbimanual examinations. Fig. 53 shows the hand gloved and ready for the vaginalexamination. Fig. 54 shows the disposition of the outside fingers and the thumb,as the examination is being made. The third and fourth fingers are folded into thepalm of the hand as far as possible, and care is taken to maintain extension of thethumb, so that it does not infringe upon the genitals in the region of the clitoris.-For the same reason, in the deep internal palpation the wrist should be dropped lowand the examining fingers directed upward, so as to throw the thumb away from thegenitals. In the very deep palpation in the sides of the pelvis, when the thumb is 40 THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
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Fig. 52. Position of tlie fingers for the vaginal and vagino-abdominal examinations.

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