Medical cases and remarks / by Thomas Gibbons.

  • Gibbons, Thomas, active 1775-1799.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical cases and remarks / by Thomas Gibbons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    be eafily determined, as the inferior part of the cheft admits of confiderablc variety both in its figure and capacity. In males, where there is a greater ca- pacity of cheft, the hypoehondres are more capacious; hence the epigaftric and the right hypochohdric regions are large enough to contain this vifcus. 6. In females, who have naturally a fmaller cheft, which is often ftill more contra<5led by tight lacing, the epigaftric and the right hypochondric regions are infufficient to contain the liver, it there- fore extends far into the left hypochon- dre; befide which, it fometimes, in thefe cafes, occupies no inconfiderable part of tlie umbilical region. Its fitu- alion, then, with refpej^i to the general