The medical practitioner's pocket companion, or a key to the knowledge of diseases, and of the appearances that denote recovery or danger, being an alphabetical arrangement of symptoms with their various indications.

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1822
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    breathing considerably affected, and great anxiety follows. When the smaller intestines are the seat of the pain, it is more acute ; when the larger intestines, it is more dull and heavy.) Pains, in the muscles of the belly, rarely confined to the umbilical region, but darting in various directions to the chest or pelvis, and attended with soreness not confined to the abdomen.—D. Rheumatism. in the belly, superficial, and without the usual symptoms of inflamed viscera.—Rheumatism of the. abdominal muscles. ■ augmented by any exertion, shooting to the false ribs and spine of the ileum.—D. Inflammation of the muscles of the belly. -——— in the intestines.—D. Inflammation of the kidney. - colicky.—D. Scirrhous testicle. —— attended with retraction of one of the testicles, numbness of the leg on this side, and a pain shooting down the inside of the thigh.—D. A stone passing through the ureter. ■ very troublesome, resembling colic.—D. (Some- times) Impost hume of the mesentery. in the bowels, generally most violent at the pit of the stomach.—I). Incarcerated hernia. acute, in the bowels, with constipation, and a sudden fulness relieved by discharge of wind ; some- times attended with cardiaTgic symptoms, and efforts to vomit.—D. Flatulent colic. violent, in the bowels, with inversion of their peristaltic motion, so that the faeces are thrown up by vomiting.—D. Iliac passion. irregular, in the bowels.—I). Atonic govt there. in the liver, dull and tensive, attended with a tumour and hardness on the right side below the short ribs; a sense of weight; difHcr.lt breathing, and dry cough ; weight in the stomach after eating, with an increase, of the difficulty of breathing; uneasiness from lying on the leftside; countenance yellow, pale, or sallow; the urine often of an orange colour, depositing a thick, mucous sediment.—0. Scirrhous li\