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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![ia IJKE—CON ])lltATiiiM,, shortness of, gradually increasing.—P. Chillimss, see Shivering-. Coujskss of the extremities.—D. Hysteria.—P'. Hx moptx 1 —— with clammy sweats and Buntings.—1). Inflammation of the stomach. I'oison. ith vomiting (in dy- sentery).—P. Fatal termination. in the back, as if water were running down it, soon extending over the whole body, and produc- ing rigour and shivering, and followed by heat.—D. r.—P. The longer the cold stage is protracted, the more dangerous the fever is likely to prove: a smart rigour of shorter duration is more favourable, and numbness of the extremities (in fever).— I'. Danger. increasing till the patient sinks into torpor (in intermittent fever).—P. Death. unusual sense of, in the thighs, preceded by a heavy, dull pain and weakness in the back-bone.—P. Distortion of the spine from caries. Convulsions.— 1). Poison. (In children). Dentition. Small-pox. (In children not subject to convulsions, if itition be completed, small-pox may always be ap- prehended as the cause.) convulsive tremors.—D. Compression of the brain. convulsive twitchings, increasing to vio- lent spasms.—1). Hysteria. - - violent convulsive motions of the limbs.— 1). Ep (in putrid fever).—P. Highly dangerous. (in intermittent fever) violent spasms.— P. Danger. (in dysentery).—P. Fatal termination. - (in palsy), in parts opposite to those that are paralytic—P. Danger](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21158824_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
