Clinical methods : a guide to the practical study of medicine / by Robert Hutchison and Harry Rainy.

  • Rainy Harry.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Clinical methods : a guide to the practical study of medicine / by Robert Hutchison and Harry Rainy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or of abnormal muscular movements, and state of muscular nutrition (pp. 475-486). Electrical reactions of muscles and nerves, if necessary (pp. 504-516). (4) Sensory functions (including condition of sensibility to touch, weight, temperature, and pain, and the muscle gen86] (pp. 486-490) ; presence or absence of abnormal sensations (p. 490). (•j) Reflexes :— Superficial Reflexes (p. 491). Deep Reflexes (p. 496). Organic Reflexes and Sphincters (p. 501). (6) Vasomotor and trophic changes. Tache or abnormal flushing. Localised pallor or blueness. Sweating (presence or absence in any locality). Joint changes. Changes in the nails, hair, or skin (abnormal pigmcnta'.ion, eruptions, .atrophies, etc.) (p. 502). 9. The eye. Appearances seen on ordinary inspection of lids, conjunctiva, cornea, iris, etc. (p. 517). Use oblique illumination and ophthalmoscopy, notinir slate of media, refraction, and characters of fundus (pp. 520-534). N.B. — The fundus of the eye should be reported on in all cases of nervous disease. The l',s«r.—Examine pinna, meatus, and membrane (using speculum and inflation if uecessary) (p. 534). The Throat, nose, and larynx.—Examine larynx (laryngoscopy) and anterior and posterior nares (posterior rhinoscopy) (pp. 539-547), noting any abnormalities. 10. .Loeoinotory system. Describe any changes in the bones or joints (p. 548). Diagnosis. (Prognosis.) Notes of Treatment and Progress. (Daily notes in acute cases ; in others make a note of progress every three days.) State on dismissal. If patient died, add notes of post-mortem (if held). The following special scheme for cases presenting mental symptoms has been drawn up by Dr. Henry Head, and will often be found useful in medical wards :—