What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.

  • London Medical Society of Observation
Date:
1853
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    and impalsc); ayitolie (roincidcut with tint «oaod and impulsi-); post-syrtolic (contioaing after first aound and impulse, but before second sound); dia- stolic (coincident with or following second sonnd); continnous.— Rhythm of murmurs.—Transmission of mumuirs (noting the exact direction).—I’resamed origin of sound; endocaniiac, pericardiac, or exocar- diac.* General Cardiac eytnpiomt. 179. Pain:—locality; severity; characters; direc- tion ; constancy ;—accompanied or not by dysputra ?— how induced?—effect of posture upon it.—Other ehnor- mat eeruaiiont : sinking; faintness; preasore; weight; drawing, dragging.—Tendemett: its locality, in inter- spaces or on ribs P by what amount of pressure caused ? 180. Patpifaiion: — severity ; frequency ; con- stancy circumstances giving rise to it, exertion, going up stairs or up hill, mental emotion, etc. Arterie*. 181. Intpecliom—Ihilsation visible or not? dha- racters of muvcmcuU. 182. Palpation: — Pulsation; its frequency, strength ; lateral impulse;—time as com]>arcd with that of heart's imptilss. 183. Amrultation:—Sounds and murmurs, with and without pressure. 184. Radial puUe:—number;—size and force; large, small, thready, equal, unequal, strong, feeble;— resistance; soft, compressible, bard, incompressible; — rhythm; regular, irregular, intermittent; — time as compared with that of heart’s impulse;—artery ^uous.— Special characters of pulse; jerking, bound- ing, undulatory, continuous (one pdse appearing to mn into the following), vibrating, quick, tarrl^ vermicular, tremulous, reduplicate.—Effects of postore on pulse fits number and other characters).—Pheuo- meaa of pulse in one arm as comjiared with the other. * Kiueantiae —1. e., a sound produced during tbe heart's action, but having a cause oxteroal to the heart and * pericardium. General Cantiac Pain. ! ' other senia- I tioas. I tenderness. Palpitation. Arleriet. In^iactlon. Palpation. j AuscoHatlon. Radial pulse— number, tixe, torca. resiittance. rfajrthm. special charac- ters.