The medical practitioner's pocket companion, or a key to the knowledge of diseases, and of the appearances that denote recovery or danger, being an alphabetical arrangement of symptoms with their various indications.
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- 1822
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Credit: The medical practitioner's pocket companion, or a key to the knowledge of diseases, and of the appearances that denote recovery or danger, being an alphabetical arrangement of symptoms with their various indications. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Appetite, loathing1 of all solid food.—D. Ardent fever. • for solid food failing-, with increase of thirst. —P. Ascites. variable, often ravenous.—P. St. Vitus's dance. (in fever, after some continuance,) capricious. —P. Favourable. ( ■ ), longing for a particular kind of food.—P. Favourable. Arms and face emaciated.—P. Ascites. Asthma (in gouty patients).—D. Atonic gout in the lungs. (I have known the difficulty of breathing in this case very great while sitting erect, and speedily relieved by a reclining posture.) B. Back, weakness in the backbone, accompanied with a heavy dull pain, and great lassitude.—P. Caries of the spine. curvature of the spine, generally about the middle of the lumbar vertebrae, with a crackling- sound on bending it, and great debility or total loss of motion in the lower limbs.—D. Caries of the spine. Belly, see Abdomen. Blindness, see Eye. Blood, dissolution of the texture of the.—D. Alkaline acrimony in the system. discharged from the intestines, bladder, &c. —D. Last stage of scurvy much discharge of, from the mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.—D. Injury oftlie brain. spitting of.— ]). Hxmoptysis. (It is of impor- tance in this case to distinguish whence the blood proceeds. If brought up by coughing, it is from the lungs, and is often mixed with pus, or frothy mucus. If by vomiting, it is from the stomach, and is generally mixed with the contents of this viscus: commonly too it is more considerable in quantity, of a darker colour, and has been preceded by nausea. When from the fauces, or dropping from the nose, it is small](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21158824_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
