Manual of the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the heart : including the use of the sphygmograph and cardiograph / by Arthur Ernest Sansom.

  • Arthur Ernest Sansom
Date:
1881
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Credit: Manual of the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the heart : including the use of the sphygmograph and cardiograph / by Arthur Ernest Sansom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ORDINARY METHODS OF PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS. LECTURE I. IN TRODDCTORY. Symptomatology—Importance of subjective symptoms in regard to treatment: of objective in diagnosis — Pain — Angina pectoris — Cardiac symptoms—Disturbances of circulation—Pulmonary symptoms—Cerebral phenomena— Embolism—Gastric symptoms—Signs referred to the throat —Renal symptoms—Etiology—Rheumatism—Other causes of heart disease. A few words on the threshold of the subject—advice pertinent to investigation of disease in any form, but yet I think rather particularly so to the class of diseases which we shall presently examine. When a suffering- patient comes to you for examination, do not permit a diversity of purpose of intent to exist between your mind and his. His chief object is to g-et relief from his aches and pains ; yours, perhaps, is to find out— by a process similar to that employed by botanists to discover the name of a newly found flower—the name of the disease which he suffers from. Remember that your duty is not chiefly to find out what disease he is the subject of, but what his sufferings are, what his deviations from sound health. The plane of unhealth B
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