Symptomatology; or the art of detecting disease: a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request ... To which are added, tables of symptoms / [A.P. Buchan].

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology; or the art of detecting disease: a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request ... To which are added, tables of symptoms / [A.P. Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TONGUE, black, in fevers, generally a bad symp-~ tom. H. black and dry, a common symptom in pu- trid fevers; in autumnal intermittents, and in continued fevers of the same constitution. yellow, in pleurisy, at the beginning, in- dicates a crisis within seven days; if on the third or fourth day, not till the ninth. A. relaxed and torpid, with deafness, and trembling of the hands, in fevers, fatal. H. ee very moist, with nausea, cold sweats, and loose belly, often indicates black vomiting. H. dry and deep furrowed, yellow and green- ish, in some malignant fevers. dry, rough, and changing colour, in puer- peral fevers, bad. parched, without thirst, in ae bad. H. pte faltering, with frequent giddiness, sing- ing in the ears, head-ach, and occasional for- getfulness, in plethoric habits, portends Apo- PLEXY. red, in Quinsey or Peripneumony, bad. H. TOSSING, with cold sweats, particularly about the head, in fevers, bad. H. in fevers, sometimes precedes convul- ee el sions. 7. with frequent rigour, lassitude, and pain in the loins, bad. H. | TRANQUILLITY, in fevers, frequently portends a tedious disease. H.