Advice and maxims for young students and practitioners of medicine : with remarks on the pulse / by Daniel Johnson.

  • Johnson, Daniel.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Advice and maxims for young students and practitioners of medicine : with remarks on the pulse / by Daniel Johnson. 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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    pulse increase or decrease; but I must ob^ serve, that I am of opinion that where it is used once beneficially, it is ten times the reverse. It cannot be of use when the pulse is obstructed or oppressed ; and at all times the attention requisite to count the pulsa- tions by a watch, distracts the attention from more necessary considerations, which counterbalances, in a great measure, the benefit to be derived from its use; particu- larly when we take into consideration, that a well-skilled medical man will always be able to judge, within a few strokes, the. number of pulsations in a minute; and by not using a watch, he can attend more minutely to every alteration and circum- stance during the time he is feeling them. He should always make a point of feeling them two or three different times before he leaves the room ; his first appearance, alone, may cause so much irritation to his patient, as to increase the pulse five or ten strokes in a minute; and if his presence give so much