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MCBURNEY, Charles Heber (1845 – 1913)

MCBURNEY, Charles Heber (1845 – 1913)

1845 – 1913

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1889 CE

#3570

Experience with early operative interference in cases of disease of the vermiform appendix.

Describes (p. 678) “McBurney’s point”: “The seat of greatest pain, determined by the pressure of one finger, has been very exactly between an inch and a half and two inches from the anterior sp…