A system of clinical medicine, dealing with the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease / 2nd edition.

  • Savill, Thomas Dixon, 1856-1910.
Date:
1909
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Credit: A system of clinical medicine, dealing with the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease / 2nd edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAGE Evolution of medicine—Origin of the work—Plan of the work—Special features—Advantages of the author’s method—Responsibilities xxi CHAPTER I CLINICAL METHODS Definitions—Case-taking ; remarks on the interrogation of, and physical examination of patients; scheme of ease-taking—Examination of children and infants—Three methods of diagnosis discussed—Principles of prognosis and of treatment—General rules in clinical investigation— Classification of diseases ------- 1 CHAPTER II THE FACIES, OR EXTERNAL APPEARANOES OF DISEASE The physiognomy in various diseases, acute and chronic ; causes of swelling of the face; causes of alterations in the colour and complexion of the face; the face in detail—The physiognomy in infancy and childhood— Variations in the form of the skull—The physiognomy in diseases of the nervous system—The decubitus and attitude in disease—The general conformation of the body—Causes of emaciation—Causes of enlargement of the body ; obesity—Dwarfism and its various causes - - - 16 CHAPTER III THE HEART AND PERICARDIUM Introduction—Part A. Symptomatology: breathlessness ; Cheync-Stokes respiration ; dropsy ; palpitation ; pain in the chest; syncope ; cough ; cyanosis; sallowness; pyrexia; sudden death - - - - 30 Part B. Physical examination : landmarks of the chest; inspection; palpa- tion ; localisation of the apex ; percussion ; resistance to palpation ; auscultation ; the pulse ; ausculto-percussion ; radiography - - 43 Part C. Diseases of the heart and pericardium, their diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment: classification ; routine procedure—Acute diseases: acute pericarditis; acute endocarditis; ulcerative or malignant endocarditis; paroxysmal tachycardia ; angina pectoris—Chronic diseases: classifica- tion ; hypertrophy of the heart; dilatation of the heart; hydro-peri- cardium ; congenital heart disease ; chronic endocarditis, cardiac valvular disease (C.V.D.) ; varieties of cardiac murmurs ; tabic of differentiation of various forms of cardiac valvular disease—Systolic murmurs : mitral