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Rosamond McKenney Sweet Diary, 1915
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Saturday, January 2
2 days past 363 to come
Meltzer's Sign of Appendicitis
With the patients supine and the abdomen relaxed the examiner presses firmly with his fingertips down upon Mcburney's point; the patient is then instructed to raise his right thigh, with the keen fully extended. If this movement causes or is inhibited by severe pain, it is strongly suggestive of appendicitis, the organ being compressed between the contracting psoas muscle and the examiner's fingers. It is always advisable to make a comparative test on the left side. - Amer. Journ. of Surg
Weather: Cold and Snowing
Snow flying in every direction Eugene Alexa and Mr and Mrs. Dance & Carlton on was over for dinner it was Eugenes birthday. They all went home for tea.
