The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily.

  • Daily, William.
Date:
1848
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Credit: The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The most prominent and useful pathological states of the pulse, consist in: frequency, quickness, strength, fulness, hardness and irregularity. A frequent Pulse is one in which the pulsations suc- ceed each other with preternatural rapidity; a pulse beating more than 160 in a minute, is scarcely to be counted; great frequency of pulse always connected with great prostration of the vital energies; frequency, with fulness and strength of pulse, more dangerous than the same degree offrequency, with softness and moderate fulness. When it rises above 120, in inflammatory fevers, much danger is to be appre- hended. (Heberden.) Slow Pulse : occurs from cerebral compression—inter- nal venous congestions, and impairment of the vital energies; as in apoplexy, congestive fevers, and malignant fevers. Quickness of Pulse : often confounded, improperly, with frequency. Quickness refers to the suddenness with which each individual pulsation is made—frequency has re- ference to the number of pulsations in a given time. Quick- ness, however, is generally attended by frequency. A strong Pulse is one which gives the sensation of pre- ternatural resistance to the finger, during the diastole; not to be confounded with a hard pulse. It is hard, when the artery is felt firm under the finger like a tense cord, both in its systole and disatole—sometimes called corded. Strength and great frequency never united, a strong pulse seldom ex- ceeding 115 beats in a minute ; a strong pulse indicates en- ergy of the vital powers, and is therefore favorable. A feeble Pulse, the reverse of a strong pulse: it is feeble, when the artery produces a weak impulse against the finger, during its diastole. Feebleness and softness of pulse, not synonymous—the artery may resist pressure, and yet pul- sate very feebly. The pulse is soft, when the artery appears to be filled, and yet offers no resistance, vanishing by slight pressure.