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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    last stage of acute diseases. One eye becoming smaller than the other, a bad sign; still worse (Stoll) when objects ap- pear less to one eye; lividity of eyelids, lips, and alee nasi, unless in chills, very unfavorable;—pointed nose, and much motion of the nostrils during inspiration, bad. Attitude. Constant position on the back, and sliding towards the foot of the bed, unfavorable; it betokens great prostration: same position, with open mouth, dilated pupils, or involuntary discharges, still worse. Insensibility, with mouth firmly closed and eyes fixed, a forerunner of convulsions; great desire to sit up, with dyspnoea, and livid countenance, fatal in pneumonic diseases; still more certanily fatal, when attended with a good pulse. (Baglivi.) Most favorable posture, that which approaches nearest to health; reaching into the air, and picking the bed-clothes, bad; always unfavorable when visceral inflammations supervene to simple fevers: tumefaction of the abdomen, and tenderness to pressure indicate danger; laborious breathing, with short, irregular, and interrupted acts of inspiration, is a bad sign; a still more darrg sign, is exclusive abdominal respiration, attended with strong motion of the alee, nasi by the respiratory act; stertorous breathing, attended with a rattling in the upper part of the. chest, is highly dangerous, though not invariably a fatal sign; short and very accelerated breathing, always a bad sign; free and easy respiration, favorable; hiccough, in the advanced stages of fevers, indicates danger. Constant wakefulness, or somnolency, is unfavorable—when great pain in the head, pulsation of the carotids, and a puff- ed red countenance attend the latter, there is much danger. Unequal distribution of temperature—a sensation of cold externally, and of heat internally, are bad signs; still more unfavorable, when a sense of burniug heat on the surface is attended by a feeling of cold iternally. Intellectual and moral habits. When these are changed; when old associations are interrupted; new antipathies form- ed ; when the moral become profane and loose in their language, it is a dangerous sign.