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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    inquiries, that may detect a disorder which would not have been suspected. Farther, in the following work diseases will some- times be inserted as symptoms of others; ophthalmyt for instance, is given as a symptom of suppressed go* norrhoea. Now, it is obvious, that ophthalmy is often an original disease, arising from various exciting causes, and consequently not a symptom of another disease: yet, when no adequate cause for it appears, or any ground for suspicion exists, it may be prudent in the practitioner, to direct his inquiries to this point. Thus, too, there is scarcely any disease, the appearances of which are not assumed by gout. I have known, for instance, ophthalmy, toothach, tic doloureux, asthma, and other complaints, apparently present, when gout was the real disorder; as the sudden disappearance of the supposed disease, on the affection settlingin one of the joints, has evident- ly proved; and their sudden transitions from one to another had previously given reason to suspect. The alphabetical order has been adopted as by far the best suited to the intended purpose; and such a methodical arrangement of each head has been attempted, as seemed best calculated to facilitate research, or lead to due discrimination. The diag- nostic, or such as denote existing diseases, have generally been placed first, and are distinguished by the letter D ; and the prognostic, or such as indicate either a threatened disease, or the event of a disease already present, reserved to the last under each head, and marked with a P. A2