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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    ing at the same time the fingers upon the pulse, and to note whether this action is performed with facility or with a painful effort, or affects the pulse. It is an observation of Hippocrates, that if, in fever, the breath feels cold to the hand, it is an unfavourable symptom. In the real scurvy, the malignant sore throat, and in typhus fever, the breath is offensive. In phthisis the smell of the breath is rarely unpleasant. I have ob- served it to exhale a sort of sweet mawkish odour. In children, troubled with worms, the breath has a very pecu- liar odour, probably arising from that dis- eased state of the organs of digestion, which is the source of these viventia inter viventem. All organic diseases of the viscera, contained within the thorax, are of a se-