What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases / published under the authority of the London Medical Society of Observation.

Date:
1853
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Credit: What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases / published under the authority of the London Medical Society of Observation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when and from what cause ?—exact periods of recur- rence ; — how commenced and attended, by sacral, femoral, mammary or hypogastric pains, cephalalgia, swelling of breasts, constipation, diarrhoea, hysteric paroxysm, etc.?—duration of discharge in days, vari- able or constant;—its quantity, variable or constant, proportional each day; its quality, colour, odour, coagula;—circumstances which have influenced dis- charge, weather, residence in town or country, moral emotions, over-work or exercise, riding, dancing, child- hearing, immersion of feet or hands in cold water, baths, venesection, medicines, enemata, etc.;—effect of catamenial discharges upon any particular function, upon temper, upon general bodily or mental activity.— Health in intervals; leucorrhoea preceding or follow- ing discharge, its duration, quantity, quality, (249).— Suspensions of catamenia: times of their occurrence; period of discharge at which they occurred; their pre- sumed cause;—influence exerted by them on the func- tion subsequently, on the general health.—Final cessa- tion : age of patient; change of social condition etc. preceding or accompanying it; cessation sudden or gradual;—attended or not with general or local dis- turbance of any kind, by flushings, perspirations, indigestion, etc. ? 27. Sexual intercourse,marriage:—age at marriage, or first sexual intercourse; habitual frequency of inter- course.—Husband or wife living or not ?—Subsequent marriages; their dates; age of patient when each was contracted. 28. Masturbation:—habit, when contracted ? 29. Pregnancies:—their number; duration; general character;—alteration in bodily functions or mental phenomena attending them; change of temper, spirits, etc.; constipation, diarrhoea, piles, etc.—Occurrence of menstruation during pregnancy, during every preg- nancy or not ? number of months during which it has recurred; duration of discharge, in days. 30. Labours:—their number; dates of each;—their character, natural, difficult, instrumental, complicated (with eclampsia, etc.);—important sequela:, puerperal fever, phlegmasia dolens, mania, haemorrhage, etc. 31. Miscarriages:—their number; dates of occur- rence ; month of pregnancy at which they occurred (noting on whose authority, or on what evidence each 7 accompani- ments. duration. quantity. quality. circum- stances affecting. health in inter- vals. suspensions. cause of. final cessation, age. accompani- ments. Marriage. Masturbation. Pregnancies— accompani- ments. menstruation during. Labours. Miscarriages.