Observation in medicine, or, The art of case-taking : including a special description of the most common thoracic diseases, and abnormal states of the blood and urine / by John Southey Warter.

  • Warter, John Southey.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Observation in medicine, or, The art of case-taking : including a special description of the most common thoracic diseases, and abnormal states of the blood and urine / by John Southey Warter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Respiratory System. Alas Nasi—Discharge from Nares—Character and number of Respirations—Voice—Throat—Cough— Expectoration—Physical Examination of Chest1 [In- spection, measurement, vocal vibration and expan- sion as tested by the hand, percussion, natural breathing, forced breathing, cough if necessary, voice, and unnatural loudness of conducted heart sounds]—(Chapter V.) Circulatory System. Pulse [frequency, character, state of hardness of the arterial coats, equality or otherwise of the two radials, visible pulsations]—Heart [inspection, point of apex beat, extent and character of impulse, area of dullness, friction, murmurs, their situation and track]—Large Vessels [inspection, increase of extent of dullness, impulse, pulsations, murmurs]— (Chapter VI.) Integumentary and Glandular System. Skin [moisture and roughness, odour, colour, oedema, scars and eruptions]—Glands and Lymphatics [swell- ing and redness]—(Chapter VII.) Nervous System. Cerebral [intelligence, vertigo, stupor, coma, sleep, dreams, delirium, hallucinations, cephalalgia]— 1 Auscultation of the lungs and heart may he done at any time most convenient, but the result should be recorded under each respective system.