An essay on the symptoms and history of diseases : considered chiefly in their relation to diagnosis / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1822
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    52. The different Fevers are so varied in themselves, and so various in their different stages^ and in different individuuiN, ages, and habits, that the countenance, together with the symptoms of the disease, must necessarily ijc much diversified. But of all the diagnostics of the different Fevers, and of all the indications of their progress, stages, and ckangts, none is more distinctive and characteristic than the appearance of the countenance. From this source the diagnosis and prognosis of Fevers equally flow, and it cannot, therefore, be too strongly recommended to the attention of the clinical student and young practitioner. 53. The same remark may be extended to some of the Febrile Cutaneous Diseases, in which there is, exclusively of the rash, a characteristic modification of the features. 54. In Rubeola the eye-lids are frequently red and swol- len and the eyes injected, before the appearance of the rash, and there is usually catarrhal affection; the rash begins in spots on the facej and there are sneezing, intolerance of light, &c. 65. In Scarlatina the rash becomes more general and less interrupted, and it is accompanied with more general tumidity and fulness; there is frequently an appearance of fulness about the throat and the voice is affected ; but the symptoms of catarrh are usually absent. 56. But it is not my intention to pursue this subject. My object at present is to select a few instances of morbid affec- tions particularly distinguished by the state of the counte- nance, in order to invite the attention of the medical student