"Epigastrium" Quotes from Famous Books
... abdomen and uterus ran for six weeks together in my father's head;—he had read, and was satisfied, that wounds in the epigastrium, and those in the matrix, were not mortal;—so that the belly of the mother might be opened extremely well to give a passage to the child.—He mentioned the thing one afternoon to my mother,—merely as a matter ... — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne |