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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    PAIN in the bowels, jm-ticularly about the navel, and often with contraction of the muscles of the belly, and constipation : Colica. descending to the lower bowels, in the Colica PiCTONUM, indicates copious stools and relief. in the bowels, more continual in the Colica PiCTONUJi than in the dysentery. in the bowels, increased by erecting the body, without other peculiar symptoms of inflamed viscera: Peritonitis. in the bowels, violent, particularly about the navel, with vomiting, obstinate constipation, and fever : Enteritis. in the chest, with anxiety, a sensation of heat under the sternum, and a saltish taste in the mouth, portends spitting of blood, in persons liable to that disease. —— in the chest, under the sternum, in coughing, or in either side of the thorax, a frequent symp- tom in a Phthisis Pulmonalis. sudden in the chest under the sternum, a little towards the left side, whilst walking; sometimes when in bed, and sometimes attended with a pain in the middle of the left arm: symptoms of Angina Pectoris. obtuse in the chest, under the sternum, or be- tween the scapulae, in Peripneumont. fixed in the chest, with torpor, succeeded by fever, fatal. H.