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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    Vomiting, black, in the beginning of acute dis- eases, mortal. H. black, porracious, livid, in fevers, fatal. H. — aeruginous, with violent pain in the head, long watching, and deafness, indicates madness. H. bilious, in diseased intestines, at the beginning of the eomplaint, bad. H. ■■— bilious, in consequence of a wound, especially of the head, bad. H. bilious, a symptom of the Plague. bilious, with frequent bilious stools, and pain in the bowels : Choeera. bilious, porraceous, acrid, slimy, on the second day of the Colica Pictonum. frequently precedes the eruption of the confluent Small-pox. often follows the rigour, which is the first symptom of the Measles, and ceases after the eruption. violent from a cancerous tumour in the stomach. from a scirrhous pancreas; from en- larged viscera pressing and irritating the sto- mach ; from a diseased and obstructed pylorus. from calculi, or an ulcer in the kidneys. with violent pain in the stomach, ex- treme debility, and sonaetimes hiccups, from in- flammation in that organ: pulse small and hard.