Evis Sala · Alan H. Freeman ·
David J. Lomas · Helmut Ringl

2008

Hamilton Bailey, in his time perhaps the foremost teacher of surgery in the English language, described assessment of the acute abdomen in his book, Demonstration of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery (1960), as follows: Physical signs and their interpretation reach a high pinnacle of importance in the diagnosis of acute abdominal disease. Frequently an urgent and all important diagnosis has to be formulated by their aid alone.