The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1833
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    gestions, yellow in jaundice, and curved or arclied in plitliisis and scrofula. The toucli or ai)|)lication of the hand enables us to dis- cover the augnientatioji, diminution, changes of the various tissues, modifications of temperature, presence of tumours, the presence of cellular infiltration, as in anasarca; fluctua- tion, as in ascites, liydrothorax, hydrocele, ovarian dropsy^ pregnancy, and diseases of the uterus; gastritis, hepatitis, pe- ritonitis, enteritis, hysteritis, nephritis, splenitis, and all the diseases of the chest by percussion, succussion, mensuration; and mediate auscultation. We discover calculus in the bladder by catheterism; and sesophagean, rectal, urethral, lachiymal, and aural strictures or obstructions, by manual operations. The morbid conditions of temperature are ascertained by the touch. Local defect of heat depends lipon cerebral or gastric irritation; the limbs are cold with dyspeptics, and also at the approach of death. General deficiency, indicated by rigors or shivering, may depend upon great prostration of the vital j)0wers, as after violent injuries of the head, or on severe bggmorrhage ; incipient fevers; thoracic, abdominal, or pelvic inflammations, or suppuration of internal organs. Excess of local heat indicates irritation or inflammation; and general heat, reaction, constitutional irritation, fevers, or inflammation of deep-seated organs. Dryness of the cutaneous surface is ob- sen-ed in dropsies, diabetes, and the hot stage of the different fevers ; while moisture of this part may be induced by relax- ation or debility. Redness is a sign of inflammaticn; when circumscribed on the cheek, it is a sign of hectic fever, or of mesenteric disease in children, or the infantile remittent fever. Paleness of the skin, especially of the face, which is succeeded by blushing, indicates mesenteric disease in children, and phthisis in adults. Yellowness of the face and skin is a sign of deranged secre- tion of bile. Coffee, or coppered colour, is produced by syphilis; and black spots indicate purpura, sciu-vy, or determination of the blood in the last stage of continued and eruptive fever. The sense of hearing is highly valuable as a diagnostic in