Instructions for case-taking in the medical wards / London Hospital.

Date:: [1912?]

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Credit: Instructions for case-taking in the medical wards / London Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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pregnancy, and facts as to previous pregnancies—Mis- carriages—Number of other children alive, their ages and health ; number dead, their ages and cause of death. Present State. Appearance (if healthy or otherwise)—Nutrition and development—Complexion (pallor, cyanosis, jaundice, &c.) —State of skin (dryness, moisture, eruptions, desquamation, pigmentation, oedema)—Attitude, expression, demeanour, temper. Shape of head, and state of its ossification (fontanelle, craniotabes)—Hair—Eyes, nose, and ears (formation of, and if any discharge from)—Neck—Shape of thorax, abdomen, back, and limbs (especially the hands)—Enlarged glands—Evidence of rickets, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Character of voice, cry, and cough—Rate and char- acter of respiration (if noisy, dyspnoeic, or painful— Movements of alae nasi—Rate and character of pulse— Temperature. The various systems should then be examined in detail as in an adult, the system most affected being described first.