Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    compels to take shelter in such asylums; and when they are seized by any dangerous disorder, surely their own feelings should teach them, that it is worse than inconsiderate to repeat the same questions many times over, and often without any determinate object. It should never be forgotten that misfortune has the strongest claims on the sympathy of every man ; and that even- principle should prompt us not to expose ourselves to such a censure as Martial passed on one of the physicians of his time— Languebam ; sed tu comitatus protinus ad me Yenisti centum, Symmache discipulis. Centum me tetigere manus, aquilone gelatae Non habui febrem, Symmache nune habeo. 48. Tire time of making the examination is not alto- gether a matter of indifference. When it is intended to put a number of questions, and enter into all the details necessary for a complete narrative, it is advisa- ble to do so during the period of the remission, as then the patient can better bear the fatigue and exertion of conversation. But when, on the contrary, we wish to observe the symptoms presented by the disease, and the changes induced in the functions, in a word, the actual state of the patient, then it is better to choose the moment of exacerbation, as all the symp- toms are more strongly marked, and their relative importance can be more easily assigned. 49. The acute and chronic forms of disease require a plan of examination and narration altogether different. Every thing connected with the previous history should be known, and stated fully in chronic cases ; it is the only means of throwing .any light on the obscurity which so generally surrounds them. But in acute cases this is far less necessary : it is of very little use, when considering a case of arachnitis, or pericarditis, or when giving its history, to go back to any previous affections of die patient, or inquire what has been his usual manner of living, or what influence any particular agent may have exerted upon him. When