"Reachable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stomach wall can be pushed by the tube into almost any position, and with the aid of gentle external abdominal manipulation to draw over the pylorus it is possible to examine directly almost all of the gastric walls except the pyloric antrum, which is reachable in relatively few cases. A lateral motion of from 10 to 17 cm. can be imparted to the gastroscope, provided the diaphragmatic musculature is relaxed by deep anesthesia. The stomach is explored by progressive traverse. That is, after exploring down ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
... into the extraordinary rectangle of St. James's, where he was utterly at home. A strange architecture, parsimoniously plain on the outside, indeed carrying the Oriental scorn for merely external effect to a point only reachable by a race at once hypocritical and madly proud. The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony. The despairing architect had been so pinched by his employers in the matter of ornament that on the whole of the northern facade there was ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett |
