Health and disease : as influenced by the daily, seasonal, and other cyclical changes in the human system / by Edward Smith.

  • Edward Smith
Date:
1861
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Credit: Health and disease : as influenced by the daily, seasonal, and other cyclical changes in the human system / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    DESCRIPTION OF DIAGRAMS. [The Author is responsible for the Diagrams.] Hourly Pulsation and Respiration with and without Food. No. Page. 1 8 Represents the hourly rate of pulsation in a female child under two conditions:—1st. The large dotted line shows the rate on the average of three days and nights with ordinary food. 2nd. The small dotted line represents the rate on the occasion of a fast until the dinner, at 2| p.m., and then the rate with the ordinary meals. The thick line shows the hourly rate of respiration on the average of three days and nights. The shaded parts are the hours of darkness. The hours, and the period of meals, are engraved on the enclosing circle, and the scale in several parts of the diagram. Hourly Pulsation and Respiration. 2 15 Indicates the rate of pulsation and respiration at every hour in three persons in phthisis. The shaded parts represent darkness, and the thick perpendicular lines are placed at the hours of meals. The letter S signifies that the patient was then asleep; and § S that he slept lightly. The different characters of the lines in both pulsation and respiration represent different persons. Hourly Respiration. 17 Represents the hourly rate of respiration in two female phthisical patients. The letters S and | S signify sleep and light sleep. Hourly Pulsation and Respiration. 3 18 Show the hourly rate of pulsation and respiration in a phthisical woman, on the average of six days and nights. The outer or enclosing dotted line represents the pulsation b
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