Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOSE, sharp, in fevers, bad. H. or lips, livid, in malignant fevers, generally fatal. in malignant fevers, purple, blackish, swelled, pustulous, fatal. PAIN in the back, frequent, without evident cause, in fevers indicates malignity. H. in the back, with rigours, and restlessness, in fevers, often portends a diarrhoea. H. in the back, long continued, in tertian agues, indicates a discharge of grumous blood, by stool. H. in the hack, with weariness, head-ach, sick- ness, and sometimes with convulsions, precedes the eruption, of the small-pox. in the hack and joints, during the hot stage of fevers. in the bones, particularly the shins, a symp- tom of the pox; also of the sea-scurvy. in the bladder, with swelling, frequent painful attempts to make water, often without success; Avith tenesmus and fever: Cystitis. in the bowels, with fever and other dysenteric symptoms, bad. H. - in the bowels, in acute fevers, bad. H. in the bowels and loins, often precedes a dis- charge of blood from the anus. in the bowels, with tenesmus, gradually in- creasing ; mucous or bloody stools, with nau- sea and fever: Dysenteria.