What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.
- London Medical Society of Observation
- Date:
- 1853
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PART I.] PECULIARITIES OP THE PATIENT. [§ L Circulating system, etc.: sensibility to changes of temperature or of hygrometric state of atmo- sphere ;—readiness of reaction after chilling the surface ; habitual warmth or coldness of feet and hands;—habitual character of the pulse as to fre- quency, fulness, force, and regularity;—tendency to blushing. Urinary system: habits of voluntary retention of lu-ine or of frequent micturition ;—readiness with which diuresis is produced by mental affections. Generative system: sexual peculiarities; natural force of instinct.—Catamenia (26). Nervous system: nervous excitability ; habitual effect of mental influences on the pulse and respiration; —habitual wakefulness or readiness to sleep; quickness or hebetude of senses. Intellectual and Moral peculiarities.* 6. Intellectual peculiarities:—amount of education; readiness to learn; character of favourite studies or reading ;—habit of reading popular medical works.— Habits of business; power and habit of concentrating attention.—Readiness of conception.—Memory, gene- rally or in respect of special subjects.—Reasoning powers and judgment;—habitual character of associa- tion of ideas, philosophical, etiological, utilitarian, poetical, trivial, etc.—Power of imagination.—Power of language and expression. 7. Moral peculiarities:—general behaviour.—Dis- position cheerful or melancholy; communicative, re- served or sulky; social or retiring?—Inquisitive or care- less ; closely observant or not of the state of the bodily functions and of variations in health ?—Amount of am- bition, its direction; vanity; self-love; love of applause; excess or deficiency of the above principles.—Natural boldness or timidity; fortitude.—General benevolence or malignity of disposition; readiness with which the passions are excited.—Force of domestic affections; of sexual love.—Force of sense of duty or of the moral sense ; religious feeling ; candour; integrity ; veracity, or tendency to deceit and cunning.—Natural sympathy; tendency to imitation.—Prudence.—Tastes, etc. circulating system. urinary system., generative system. nervous system. Intellectual and ' Moral peculiarities. Intellectual pe- culiarities. Moral peculiari- ties. * This subdivision has especial, but not sole, reference to cases of insanity; every man having his own standard of psychical health, by which presumed aberrations are to be judged.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28115478_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
