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

Royal Infirmary (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date:: [1866?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints and directions for the use of clinical clerks and students of clinical medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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DIRECTIONS, &c I. DESCRIPTION OF PATIENT.—Name, age, OCCUPATION, PLACE OF BIRTH, PRESENT ABODE ; in females whether married or not, number of children ; date of admission into Hospital. II. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS..— Its supposed exciting cause, date of seizure, mode of invasion, subsequent symptoms in order of suc¬ cession. Treatment, if any, and effect thereof. III. PRESENT CONDITION OF PATIENT.— 1. Examination of Special Regions or Func¬ tions, commencing with the one presumably the rnoH affected:— Nervous System. V Head.—Form, marks of injury. Tain, or morbid sensations. Brain—Intelligence aug¬ mented, perverted, or diminished ; cephalal¬ gia ; hallucinations; delirium, stupidity, &c.; sleep, dreams, vertigo, stupor, coma. Spinal Cord and Nerves—Pain in back. General sensibility, increased, diminished, or absent ; special sensibility, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, their increase, perversion, or diminu¬ tion ; spinal irritation as determined by per¬ cussion ; motion, natural or perverted; fatigue, pain on movement; trembling. Con¬ vulsions, continued, irregular, paroxysmal. Contractions, rigidity, paralysis of motion, of sensation.