Clinical medicine : a systematic treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Clinical medicine : a systematic treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Austin Flint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. PAGE Definition and scope of clinical medi- cine ; its practical ends and the requirements of knowledge there- for 17 Modes of examining patients . . 18 Clinical records .... 20 Clinical reports .... 21 Methods in diagnosis ... 22 Symptomatology, the chief source of the data for diagnosis . . 22 Symptoms relating to the general aspect of patients ... 23 The facies of anaemia and the cyano- tic facies ..... 23 The facies of renal disease, the malarial facies, the facies of car- cinoma, the typhoid facies, the facies of acute peritonitis, acute pneumonia, hectic fever, and ex- ophthalmic goitre ... 24 The choleraic and hippocratic facies 25 Symptoms relating to the pulse, the sphygmogi-aph .... 25 1 ncreased frequency of the pulse . 26 Diminished frequency of the pulse . 28 Quickness and slowness of the pulse 28 PAGE Hardness and softness of the pulse 29 Fulness and smallness of the pulse 30 Strength, weakness, and irregularity of the pulse .... 30 Symptoms relating to the tempera- ture of the body, clinical thermo- meters . . . . .32 Situations in which the thermo- meter may be applied, rules in taking temperature, normal ther- mometry ..... 33 Thermometry in disease . . 34 Symptoms relating to the tongue . 36 Sources of error in diagnosis . . 40 Simulation of diseases . . .41 The objects, ultimate, and imme- diate, in treating cases of disease 42 Hygienic treatment in cases of disease ..... 45 Medicinal treatment in cases of disease 49 Sources of error in therapeutics . 53 The expectant system in treating cases of disease ... 55 The professional conduct of physi- cians CO SECT.IO]^ FIRST. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. Preliminary Observations. Symptomatoloyy. Cough 61 Respiration . . . • Expectoration .... 63 V.im HiKuioptysis ('4 Voice