A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 144.—The shape and size of thenon-pregnant uterus. Fig. 145.—The shape and size of the uterusaltered by early pregnancy (Budin). to the external hand and falling again into its original situation ;a tap is felt upon the uterine and vaginal walls by the fingersapplied internally. To this symptom the name ballottement has been given, and to the experienced examiner it is a positivesign of the condition, though a small cystic tumor of the ovarywith a long pedicle may simulate it closely, and the same symp-tom might, of course, be elicited in an advanced extra-uteri
A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 144.—The shape and size of thenon-pregnant uterus. Fig. 145.—The shape and size of the uterusaltered by early pregnancy (Budin). to the external hand and falling again into its original situation ;a tap is felt upon the uterine and vaginal walls by the fingersapplied internally. To this symptom the name ballottement has been given, and to the experienced examiner it is a positivesign of the condition, though a small cystic tumor of the ovarywith a long pedicle may simulate it closely, and the same symp-tom might, of course, be elicited in an advanced extra-uterinegestation. Symptoms Ascertained by Auscultation. — Mayor, a surgeonof Geneva, was the first to discover, in 1818, that the fetal heart- THE DIAGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY. 20 3 sounds could be heard by applying the ear to the abdomen of apregnant woman when the child is alive. Three years later thisvaluable symptom of pregnancy was described in an article byKergaradec presented to the French Academy. It is a symptomavailab
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