Practical diagnosis : the use of symptoms in the diagnosis of disease / by Hobart Amory Hare.

  • Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Practical diagnosis : the use of symptoms in the diagnosis of disease / by Hobart Amory Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The object of this volume is to place before the physician and student the subject of medical diagnosis as it is met at the bedside. To accomplish this the symptoms used in diagnosis are discussed first, and their application to determine the character of the disease follows. Thus, instead of describing locomotor ataxia or myelitis, there will be found in the chapter on the Feet and Legs a discus- sion of the various forms of and causes of paraplegia, so that a physician who is consulted by a paraplegic patient can in a few moments find the various causes of this condition and the differen- tial diagnosis between each. So, in the chapter on the Tongue, its appearance in disease, both local and remote, is discussed. In other words, this book is written upon a plan quite the reverse of that commonly followed, for in the ordinary treatises on diagnosis the physician is forced to make a supposititious diagnosis, and, having done this, turn to his reference book and read the article dealing with the disease supposed to be present, when if the description fails to coincide with the symptoms of his case he must make another guess and read another article. In this book, however, the discovery of any marked symptom will lead directly to the diag- nosis. Thus, if the patient is vomiting, in the chapter on Vom- iting will be found its various causes and its diagnostic significance, and the differentiation of each form of this affection from another. The value of the book is increased by the preparation of two indexes: one of symptoms and the other of diseases. Basing his efforts upon the experience which he has had in both didactic and clinical teaching of large classes of students during