A guide to the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs and heart : together with an introduction to the examination of the urine / by James Sawyer.

  • Sawyer, James, Sir, 1844-1920.
Date:
1870
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Credit: A guide to the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs and heart : together with an introduction to the examination of the urine / by James Sawyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such parts as are appreciable during life.' Symptoms may be subjective, or they may be objective. The phenomena of disease, such as pain, &c., which are only appreciated by the patient, and which are made known to us by his language, expression, gesture, &c., are called subjective symptoms. The phe- nomena of disease, which only we can recognise and appreciate, such as tubular breathing, bronchophony, &c., are called objective symptoms. Each set of symp- toms often interprets the other; but, of the two, the objective are by far the most reliable, for we directly observe them ourselves, while the subjective symptoms are liable to perversion, ex- aggeration, or suppression, according to the condition of the patient's emotions, senses, and intellect. The term physi- cal sign is often used, and it is applied to symptoms which are directly evident to the observer only. Interpreted by the observer, and not by the patient, incapable, except in the rarest instances, of being feigned, dissembled, or even * A system of medicine. Dr. Russell Re)molds. 1866.