Hints and directions for the use of clinical clerks and students of clinical medicine.

  • Royal Infirmary (Aberdeen, Scotland)
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Hints and directions for the use of clinical clerks and students of clinical medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 Examination of General Symptoms. Position in bed, mode of lying ; out of bed, movements. Aspect of body, of countenance. Skin—erup¬ tions, scars. Pulse. Respiration. Tongue. Temperature. General State of Digestion. General State of Urinary Secretion. Sensa¬ tions of patient, pain, &c. 1Y. PREVIOUS HISTORY. — Constitution and general health; hereditary predisposition; pre¬ vious diseases or injuries ; habits and mode of life ; hygienic influences to which exposed. V. TREATMENT AND PROGRESS Oh THE CASE— Memoranda.—Enter carefully the diet and prescriptions. Daily watch the symptoms, make fresh examinations aate any changes, and in particular the result of the treatment, the date of the cessation of the different symptoms of the disease, and the period of convalescence or recovery, and of discharge Hospital. If the case prove fatal, the phenomena of approv¬ ing death should be accurately noted, and also wheth fatal termination be accompanied by symptoms referable to coma, syncope, asphyxia, &c., the condition of the mental faculties, and whether convulsions be present or not. EXAMINATION OF THE BODY AFTER DEATH. 1. External.—Number of hours after death. Gene¬ ral aspect and condition of body, marks on the surface, &c. In cases of suspected death by violence, great minuteness in the external ex- animation is necessary.