A manual of medical diagnosis / by A.W. Barclay.

  • Barclay, A. W., 1817-1884.
Date:
1857
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Credit: A manual of medical diagnosis / by A.W. Barclay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    a CD J . They resemble rice-water in cholera. I , The feces pass in scybalous lumps, with blood or mucus in i acute dysentery. I . Mucous and purulent discharges are seen in the same disease i in its chronic form ; pure pus comes away when an internal I abscess discharges itself by the intestinal canal. ).. The motions are black and pitchy when blood becomes I mixed with the ingesta in the stomach, or upper part of the canal. r. They are streaked, or more or less mixed with blood of more i natural colour in hiemorrhoids, and htemorrhages lower down . The stools are clay-coloured in deficiency of bile. ,1... They are sometimes frothy and yeasty-looking, as if fermen- j tation had taken the place of digestion. i '.. They may contain Huid fat, which solidifies on cooling; this is sometimes connected with pancreatic disease ; or, they may contain biliary calculi, intestinal worms, and even cal- culi from the kidney. 1''. Occasionally the form of the evacuation is altered by pass- ing through a strictured portion of the gut, when that is placed near its lower orifice. .'2. The character of the urine. It. It is remarkably pale, limpid, and abundant in hysteria, but not persistently so. ;'3. It is generally dark coloured, with or without deposit on standing, in febrile states. /. There is a copious deposit on cooling, when the watery por- tion is deficient, and much acid is secreted. 1. It gives a red stain to the utensil in disorder of the liver, in connexion with the foregoing state. :. It presents a dark porter colour in jaundice, from the pre- sence of bile. C. It has a smoky colour from altered blond when acid, and a pinkish hue when alkaline; becoming quite crimson when much blood is passed. r). The conditions of albuminuria, pyuria, and diabetes, the characters of the sediments, and the effect of chemical re- agents, will be afterwards noticed. 1. The appetite becomes— . Excessive in diabetes. . Craving in mesenteric disease, or when intestinal worms exist. y. Eepravedinhysteria-—eating of chalk, cinders, slate-pencil, &c. 3. Fanciful in pregnancy ; expressed as longings for certain articles. :. It is very variously altered in dyspepsia. in the canal.