A treatise on desk diseases : containing the best methods of treating the various disorders attendant upon sedentary and studious habits : with a variety of prescriptions adapted to each particular affection / by W.M. Wallace.

  • Wallace, W. M.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A treatise on desk diseases : containing the best methods of treating the various disorders attendant upon sedentary and studious habits : with a variety of prescriptions adapted to each particular affection / by W.M. Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    both the patient himself, and those who may take upon themselves to pronounce upon his case, may be able with certainty TO DISTINGUISH NERVOUS FLUSHINGS FROM THE HUE OF HEALTH. You will seldom be deceived, if you take the following circumstances into account. The leading distinction between the hue of health and the flush of nervous indigestion is, that the natural red is for the most part confined to the cheeks, and shades off into a clear pale colour about the temples, the eyes, the neck, &c, while the nervous flush is spread over the whole face and often part of the neck; and the temples, which are pale in health, are suffused with red. To those who have only a smattering know- ledge of disease, this nervous flush is considered to be hectic, and thus they often raise an un- founded alarm from their own ignorance; for hectic is a fatal symptom, while the nervous flush now described, indicates little or no danger. You may almost always discover the difference by the pulse, the hectic pulse being uniformly 100 or more ; the nervous pulse seldom if ever above 85 or 90 beats per minute, and often not more than 70 or 65. The average healthy pulse is 75, but varies much according to age, sex, size, and constitution, as we shall show hereafter, c