Medical reporting, or, Case-taking : being an attempt to prove that it is necessary for the medical attendants of families to record the particulars of their patients' illnesses, and the peculiarities of their constitutions, in order to treat their illnesses with due care : with suggestions for overcoming the difficulties which have hitherto prevented medical case-taking from becoming general / by Samuel Crompton.

  • Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Medical reporting, or, Case-taking : being an attempt to prove that it is necessary for the medical attendants of families to record the particulars of their patients' illnesses, and the peculiarities of their constitutions, in order to treat their illnesses with due care : with suggestions for overcoming the difficulties which have hitherto prevented medical case-taking from becoming general / by Samuel Crompton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    item us. For tre munts aftuv etiij a bit ov lobstur, Je sufurd so sever]i from uetl raj, dat Je hardli got a siijgl njts rest duriij dat periud. (B no a ladi lnu canot sit in a ram Invar dar iz a melun. i atend de wjf ov a buqur, lira nevur tasted animal find. Wod (Wadd), in hiz coments on corpulensi and lennes, paj 156, liaz de foloiij pasej: ‘ Djnd wid Dr. C. dis da. He menjund a cas ov a jentlman liui had nevnr tasted fij, flej, or fsl, but liuiz djet hud ben constantli bred and mile. He woz wuns in travelir), beiij veri huggri, temted tm tast a smel pes ov qicen, but it had sug an efect on him az tm ocajun a fan tig imedietli.’ Mrs. F—, ov Hctfurd, Hurtfurdjer, ns a stst helti wiaman, nevur tasted animal find til Je woz twenti yerz ov aj. Brasavolus reports ov de yuggur detur ov Freduric, Cirj ov Naplz, dat Je wud not et eni cjnd ov flej, nor so mug az tast ov it, and az ofn az Je put a bit ov it intra bur mzrfc, Je woz sezd wid a violent sig- cope, and felig tui de mi, and roliij hurself darupon, wud lamentabli Jrec 3t. His Je wud continii tiu dm for de spas ov hqf an sr aftur Je woz re- turnd tm hurself. Hez casiz or elso from Wod. Meni ma regard dem az irelevant, but \ strogli suspect dat sug casiz ar ov no veri unfreewent ocurens, and dat if de udur facts respect ig de constitnjunz ov sug pursunz war acurctli recorded, sum most inturestig and practical infurensiz wud be obtand, az tm de tretment ov dizez. Scwuli stranj peciiliaritiz egzist wid respect tm remediz. i liav a pajent hm canot tac de smelest dos ov rmbcu’b widst havig de most violent vomitig and purjig, atended wid a prostrajun ov stregt pmfectli alarmiij. It haz elwaz had dis efect upon lnu-. Det haz ben ocagund bj de aplicajun ov a fii legiz tm de brest ov a ladi. Mr. Travurs givz de cas in hiz buc on Constitujunal Iritajun. Det haz ben cezd bj de aplicajun ov a blistur. He fqdur ov wun ov mj pajents cud not tac de smelest cwontiti ov opium widst its prodqsiij erisipelas. Dr. Cristisun in hiz buc on Paznz, sez, ‘H veri important surcumstans tm atend tm in respect tm de dos ov opium recwjrd tm prmv fatal, iz de inflmens ov constitujunal surcumstansiz in renduriij dis drug unujuali cnurjetic. Hus j am aewanted wid a jentlman on hmm sevn drops ov ledanum act wid grat surtenti az a Ilipnotic. In sug a wun, dosiz hwig ar safli tacn bj meni, mjt pnuv danjurus.’ Az a prraf ov de endurans ov sum constitujmiz ov de cfects ov opium, he menjuiiz de cas ov a jentlman hm iz unacustmnd tm de us ov opium, hm haz tacn widst injuri nerli an 3ns ov gud ledanum—a dos hwig wud surtcnli prmv fatal tm most pepl.’* But de cfects ov Murciu'i ar stil mor variabl. ‘It iz important,’ sez Dr. Wotsun, ‘ tiu no dat difurent pursunz admit ov, or rezizt, de spesific * Cristisun on Pcrznz, 711.