The essentials of physical diagnosis of the chest and abdomen ...

  • Anderson, J. Wallace (James Wallace)
Date:
1889
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    ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN. Disease expresses itself in many forms, but in only two essentially distinct ways. It may declare itself to liim who bears it or to him who looks on ; to either alone or to both. Its indi- cations to the sufferer are now technically known as symj^toms ; those which the observer detects are called signs. It is with the latter alone that we are concerned here. The signs are not always on the surface, nor are they always distinctive. On the contrary they are often equivocal and obscure. They must therefore be examined, and their physical examination occupies the first place in the inquiry. By means of a physical examination we make a physical diagnosis.