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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    2. Male.* 258. Scrotum: — anasarca; eruptions (77 et seq.); hernia, etc. 259. Testicles:—absent from scrotum; very small; enlarged (one or both ?), character of enlargement; mobility.—Pain; constant or occasional? its charac- ter ;—tenderness. 260. Penis:—unusually small; enlarged, cause and character of enlargement; enlargement of corpora cavernosa; hardness of corpus spongiosum;—condi- tion of urethra (218 et seq.); tenderness, its seat. 261. Spermatorrhoea:—its frequency; amount; erotic or not? nocturnal or diurnal? induced by defsecation; influenced by temperature, by state of bowels, by anxiety of mind, by sexual excitement;— immediate sequelse of discharge, headache (occipital or otherwise), constipation, failure of sight, confusion of thought, insomnia or drowsiness, lumbar pain, etc. K.—ENCEPHALON AND ITS COVERINGS AND APPENDAGES. Examination of Cranium, etc. 262. Cranium: — general form, conical, lozenge- shaped, etc.;—form of frontal, parietal, and occipital regions;—prominence; flattening;—symmetry of the two sides;—special depressions or eminences, from injury, etc.—Its size; height, length, breadth.—Mea- surement : circular (over superciliary ridges and occipital protuberance), compared with circumference of neck;—across vertex (from ear to ear), along middle line (from root of nose to occipital protuberance).— Cranial hones: their apparent thickness; fixed or loose.—Fontanelles: prominent or depressed? tense; fluctuating; pulsating; relation of pulsation to heart’s systole and to respiratory acts. 263. Integuments, etc.—Temperature, compared in different parts; colour; fulness of vessels; pulsation.— Ecchymosis, with or without swelling?—Wounds (626); * Such points alone are here noted, as have especial reference to medical cases. 55 Scrotum. Testicles. Penis. Spermatorrhoea. § IV. K. Cranium, etc. Cranium— form. symmetry. measurement. bones. fontanelles. Integuments— temperature, etc. ecchymosis. wounds, etc.