A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 56.—Vaginal examination. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 157 come in contact with his hands, but serves as a screen to pre-vent the woman from appreciating the extent to which she isexposed (Fig. 56). The writer prefers this method to the older one of coveringthe limbs and abdomen with a single sheet arranged in horse-shoe form, which is always getting in the way or becomingdisarranged, and which, from the nature and method of its ad-justment, is far more suggestive to the patient than the onedescribed in detail. If the physicians o
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . Fig. 56.—Vaginal examination. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 157 come in contact with his hands, but serves as a screen to pre-vent the woman from appreciating the extent to which she isexposed (Fig. 56). The writer prefers this method to the older one of coveringthe limbs and abdomen with a single sheet arranged in horse-shoe form, which is always getting in the way or becomingdisarranged, and which, from the nature and method of its ad-justment, is far more suggestive to the patient than the onedescribed in detail. If the physicians outfit contains a Kelly pad (Fig. 57), it isto be placed under the patient, with its apron draining into the
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