Physianthropy : or, the home cure and eradication of disease / by Mrs. C. Leigh Hunt Wallace and Lex et Lux.

  • Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
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[1885]
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Credit: Physianthropy : or, the home cure and eradication of disease / by Mrs. C. Leigh Hunt Wallace and Lex et Lux. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after a meal or at unreasonable times. If troubled with great thirst, and with what other conditions accompanied. Skin.—Whether subject to irritation of, eruptions or boils on, local spots of burning, itching, stinging, coldness, or absence of sensation in. Perspiration.—If subject to profuse, or if there is an inability to perspire ; whether most profuse during sleep or waking; whether the clothes are stained, smell, and general character of; whether over the whole body, or only partial. Mental and Moral.—Whether subject to attacks of melan- choly, hysteria, loss of consciousness, visions, delirium tremens, feelings of fear, loss of memory, or any form of mental derangement. What other symptoms these conditions are accompanied by, how long they have existed, by what aggravated or alleviated (if treated), and how. Head and Scalp.—Whether any enlargement of head. Whether subject to pains in, and character of; to giddiness, fulness, heaviness, strong pulsation of the arteries of, sensations of fatigue if attempting any mental labours. Whether the hair falls off, and whether there is an eruption or irritation of the scalp. When do these symptoms usually occur, by what aggravated and what alleviated ; how treated. Glands.—Whether subject to swellings or ulcerations of, and how treated. Present condition of. Eyes.—Whether dim, long sighted, or short sighted, in- flamed, sensitive to light, &c. Ears.—Whether subject to noises or pains in, and cha- racter of. Whether ever troubled with discharge of matter from, and if so, whether one or both ears, and what is the character and smell of. Whether the powers of hearing are equal.* Hose.—Whether swollen, or subject to burning heat in. Whether subject to discharge from, and character of, and effect of discharge on the nasal passages. Whether * Test by carefully ascertaining whether the ticking of a watch can be heard exactly the same distance from the one ear as from the other.
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