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SHAKING. 39
This movement is usually given after tapotement of the
chest.
Shaking at the Pit of the Stomach.
The patient either stands (fig. 27), or lies in the recumbent
position, as in fig. 6, in both cases with the hands folded behind
his neck. The fingers are placed midway between the ensiform
cartilage of the sternum and the navel. We see from the
Fig. 27.
position of the fingers, that they have above them the pyloric
part of the stomach and the left lobe of the liver, while just
beneath them lies the solar plexus. The movement is made in a
backward and slightly upward direction. As the stomach and
its continuation, the duodenum, have involuntary muscles in
their walls, which are more sensitive to stimulation by reason of
their tendency to automatic contraction, and as the solar plexus
commands the circulation in the abdomen, we may readily under-
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