[BITList] Service Doctors

[John Davison]

INFO  WHEN SIGNING ON POOL SHIPS NEWCASTLE ON TYNE BOT ,  AFTER PANTS DROP THE DOCTOR WOULD STARE AT YOU AND SAY STAND STILL  AND COUGH !!! THAT WAS THE TEST !!

TRUE OR FALSE I HEARD THAT THESE TESTS THE DOC GOT  A FEE OF HALF A CROWN, SUPPOSE  A SHIP WITH 20 OR 30 MEN  A DAY , IN THE 50S , IT WAS A LUCRATIVE INCOME >

SALAAMS 

> 
>     On 28 March 2018 at 14:39 John Feltham <wantok at me.com> wrote:
> 
>     Doctor: Drop pants, head to the right and cough.
> 
>     Did doctors really hold the testicles of army recruits and request them to cough? If so, what where they hoping to discover?
>     Mike Rowe, Leicester
> 
>     • This is a test for an "Inguinal Hernia", which occurs when a loop of intestine pushes through an opening in the abdominal wall into the inguinal canal, the passageway through which the testes descend into the scrotum. Usually there is a painless bulge in the groin and scrotum which the coughing enlarges.
>     A least these days a doctor changes his gloves between testicle squeezings, which wasn't done when I was a lad.
> 
>     Dave Null, Claremont, California, USA
>     • I was subjected to this procedure in the basement of the Australian High Commission before I was allowed to emigrate here in 1989. I'm not sure exactly what the doctor was hoping to discover, but I evidently passed the test.
>     Justin Rigden, Adelaide
> 
>     • I don't know about the army, but at my school we had an annual medical for the first 2-3 years, and the doctor did exactly that...
>     Benjy Arnold, London, UK
> 
>     • Doctors don't hold the testicles, they put a finger at the point where the testiclces exit the abdomen and they are diagnosing whether the man has a rupture.
>     Alan Mills, Alne
> 
>     • They not only did, they still do! A young relation of mine joined the army in January and I laughingly asked him if they had done this to him - and he confirmed they did. I don't know the full explanation, but it has something to do with being able to tell if the recruit has an unsuspected hernia.
>     Mrs. M. Potter, Kettering, UK
> 
>     • Apparently you have never had a complete physical, as the doctor is checking for a hernia. When you turn your head and cough, the doctor, through pressure against the testicular wall, discovers whether a piece of intestine pokes through, thus demonstrating a hernia.
>     Brandon Thornburg, Portland, OR(formerly Poynton, Cheshire) USA
> 
>     • My dad's just got a job as a bus driver and he had it done at the medical for that.
>     Liz Bolt, Brighton Britain
> 
>     • Our matron at school used to hold our testicles and ask us to cough. She also kept a large spoon to use as a "de-arouser" should we find the experience pleasant.
>     Andrew, Thirsk North
> 
>     • When i was a little boy our school nurse did exactly this but not only did they check for this, they checked us for piles too. It was not a plesant experiance.
>     Sean, Watford England
> 
>     • I know they do it in Switzerland. Every Swiss male is required to do national service and when I had to go for the recruitment, which lasts 2-3 days, last year, they also checked my testicles. Don't know what they were looking for though.
>     David, London, UK
> 
>     • When i was first joining the British Army in 2003 this was one of the tests we were subject to in the "selection" days of the joining process.
>     Michael Commons, WEDNESBURY United Kingdom
> 
>     So, now you know!
> 
>     ooroo
> 
>     _______________________________________________
>     To unsubscribe from this email List, send an email to:
>     BITList-unsubscribe at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com
> 
>     BITList mailing list
>     BITList at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com
>     http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/mailman/listinfo/bitlist
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/pipermail/bitlist/attachments/20180328/fc0f1a56/attachment.html>