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

  • London Medical Society of Observation
Date:
1853
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    from meatus; its abundance; its appearance, serous, ! purulent, bloody ; its odour; accompanied by particles . of bone, by foreign bodies; containing bubbles of air.— { Etutaehian tube: results of catheterism of Eustachian i tube; test its pervionsness by anscultation over mastoid - process.—Membrana iympani: state of its surface; , colour, rosy, dull whit^ etc.— perforated or entire? ■ sibilation produced by forcible expiration, the month ; and nose l^iug cloaed (audible by patient or on use of stethoscope) F movement of the (lame of a taper held opposite the meatus daring same priKcss ? 319. Pain rtf erred to the ear:—its character; appa- rent depth; severity; constant or periodical F circum- ■ stances inducing it.—Sense of pulsation in ear; other abnormal sensations, as tickling. 320. Seme of hearing:—exaggerated; intolerance of sound generally, slightest sounds appearing more j or less intense; intolerance of particuW kinds of ; sound.—Defective; amount of impairment of hearing ' (distance at which the ticking of a watch is beard); • impaired for notes of |>articular pitch, high or low; are sounds heard better when sonorous b^y touches ! teeth, mastoid process, or external ear ?—Perverted; ^ illusions of hearing, e. g., murmnring or other conti- nuous noise mistaken for voices and conversations, etc.;—haUudnations of bearing, various sounds in the ears; tinnitus auriuro, iu one or both ears, ita precise character, constant or transient F affwted or not by posture, efforts, exercise, eating? accompanied or not by sounds in the vessels discoverable by auscultation ? voices sod conversations imagined to be heard, etc.— Sensibility to discords and pleasure from concords lost. Organ of Jleion and its Appendagee. 821. Eyebrotet:—their comparative elevation etc. (280.)—Egetidetheir thickness colour; vascularity; state of int^meut, eruptions (77 et rej.), (rdema; solid indurations.—Degree of closure, as compared on the two sides; facility with which eyelids arc closed ; contraction of orbicularis, permanent or spasmodic? ' degree of resistance to the eye being o]3cncd by i observer; nictitatop- movements. — Lida motionless i when conjunctiva is touched or a body is suddenly i brought near the eyes.—Abnormal sensations accom- . 69 Eustachian tube. membrana timpani. Paio— other lenta- Uous. Sense of bear- ing- exaggerated. defective. perverted. UlusSona. hallucinitioiu. Organ f'iuon, etc. Eyebrovps, etc.- eyeUds.