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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    PTYALIisM, long and obstinate, caused by fetid wool lodged in the meatus auditorius. sometimes a symptom of the distinct small-pox, always of the confluent, in adults. It begins about the seventh day. ill the small-pox, suddenly ceasing, and the pustules pale at their bases, bad. PULSE of a sleeping infant, the day of its birth, about 135 strokes in a minute. during the first month, 120. during the first year, 114. in the second year, 95. in the third, fourth, and fifth year, 94. — in the seventh, eighth, &c., 86. in the twelfth, &c., 75. in adults, 70. 160, in a child of a year old, in a fever, without danger. twenty strokes in a minute, below the natu- ral standard, in a child, that is very ill, indicates the brain being affected. 120, in adults ill of an inflammatory fever, shows the beginning of danger ; except in acute rheumatism, or in case of a critical swelling, or deposition of matter. quick, after cold shivering, succeeded by heat, and a diminution of muscular power: Fe- BRIS. quick, a constant symptom of hectic fever, after it becomes confirmed.