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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    A morbidly natural Pulse: occurs in malignant fevers; exceedingly unfavorable; can only be distinguished from a healthy pulse by the concomitant symptoms. Shattered Pulse: pulse feels like a shattered quill under the finger—occurs in opium eaters. Orstructed Pulse: artery remains equally full during its diastole and systole. The Compound Pulses. The principal are the synocha; sijnochus; synochula ; typhoid; andtyvhui,. 1. Synocha: hard, full, frequent, and strong; indicates high inflammatory excitement. 2. Synochus: full, round, active, but not hard: occurs in the hot stage of intermittents; in remittents, &c. 3. Synochula: quick, tense, small, hard, vibrating; occurs in sub-acute rheumatism—inflammation of the intes- tines, peritoneum, &c. It is the hectic pulse. 4. Typhoid: quick, small, slightly tense, not hard, and somewhat frequent: in the advanced stages of bilious fevers—the result of irritation in an exhausted state of the system. 5. Typhus: small,very frequent, somewhat quick: occurs in the advanced stages of jail, hospital, and other varieties of typhoid fevers. (Eberle.) The evidence of a single symptom not sufficient to give a decisive prognosis; the causes, the concomitant phenomena, the temperament and habits of the patient, &c. must be care- fully estimated. The Countenance. The more it varies from its natural express- ion, the more unfovorable. Hippocratic Countenance—nose pointed, eyes sunk, temples hollow, ears cold and shrivelled the lobes everted; skin on the forehead hard, tense, and dry countenance pale, livid, or leaden: a fatal symptom in the