  In this paper we apply a well-tested approximation of electron Coulomb
distortion effects to the exclusive reaction (e,e'p) in the quasielastic
region. We compare the approximate treatment of Coulomb distortion effects to
the exact distorted wave Born approximation evaluated by means of partial wave
analysis to gauge the quality of our approximate treatment. We show that the
approximate M\"oller potential has a plane-wave-like structure and hence
permits the separation of the cross section into five terms which depend on
bilinear products of transforms of the transition four current elements. These
transforms reduce to Fourier transforms when Coulomb distortion is not present,
but become modified with the inclusion of Coulomb distortion. We investigate
the application of the approximate formalism to a model of 208Pb(e,e'p) using
Dirac-Hartree single particle wave functions for the ground state and
relativistic optical model wave functions for the continuum proton. We show
that it is still possible to extract, albeit with some approximation, the
various structure functions from the experimentally measured data even for
heavy nuclei.
