ABDOMINAL DISTENTION IN LOBAR PNEUMONIA
Authors: Joel Goldman, Abraham Cohen
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1936)

Article1 March 1936ABDOMINAL DISTENTION IN LOBAR PNEUMONIAJOEL GOLDMAN, M.D., ABRAHAM COHEN, M.D.JOEL GOLDMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ABRAHAM COHEN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-9-9-1222 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn scanning the literature on meteorism we found a most interesting lecture, written by Francis Sibson1 in 1873. We wish to quote from this classic.You will at once see how seriously distention of the colon must affect the organs of the chest, not only the lungs, but also the heart, by displacing that organ to the left, whereas, in the case of the stomach, its displacement tended rather to the right.We find that the heart and the lungs are put to an immense disadvantage—that the lungs are compressed and the reserved air driven out of them—that the heart...References1. SIBSON F: Brit. Med. Jr., August 2, 1873. Google Scholar2. SCHOENMCIVERREDFIELDBENEDICT : Am. Jr. Surg., August, 1933. Google Scholar3. CUTTING RA: Principles of preoperative and postoperative treatment, Am. Jr. Surg., 1931, xii, 561. Google Scholar4. VON BUNGLE : Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen, 2d Ed., 1905, F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig. Google Scholar5. MCIVERREDFIELDBENEDICT MAACEB: Gaseous exchange between blood and lumen of stomach and intestines, Am. Jr. Physiol., 1926, lxxvi, 92-111. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. 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PAINEPHILLIPS JREC: Nasal catheter suction-siphonage, Am. Jr. Nursing, 1933, xxxiii, 525-533. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Received for publication August 12, 1935.From the Pneumonia Wards of the Philadelphia General Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byBIBLIOGRAPHY 1 March 1936Volume 9, Issue 9Page: 1222-1231KeywordsColonHeartLungsPneumoniaStomachThorax ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1936 PDF downloadLoading ...