Lectures on the morbid anatomy : nature, and treatment, of acute and chronic diseases / Ed. by Joseph Rix.

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Lectures on the morbid anatomy : nature, and treatment, of acute and chronic diseases / Ed. by Joseph Rix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. Lectceb Page I. Introductory 13 Progress of medical science. General plan. Duties of pupils. II. Method of investigating Disorder and Disease . . 23 General observations on health, predisposition, remote occasions, disorder, and disease. I. External System: changes on the surface. 1. Temperature. III. Subject continued. External System ..... 33 I. External System. Changes on the surface. 2, Colour; 3. Moisture and dryness; 4. Texture; 5. Superadded appear- ances. IV. Subject continued. External System ..... 44 1. External System. Changes on the surface. 6. Form; 7, Po- sition; 8. Expression. Uneasy sensations. Impeded functions. V. Subject continued. Nervous and Muscular Systems . . 53 II. Nervous and Muscular Systems. Brain.- 1. Uneasy sensa- tions; 2. State of the senses; 3. Expressirm of the countenance; 4. Moral habits and intellectual faculties; 5. Sleep; 6. Muscles; 7. Respiration; 8. Pulse; 9. Stomach; 10. Bowels. Spinal Cord: uneasy sensations; curvature. Particular nerves. VI. Subject continued. Respiratory System .... 63 III. Respiratory System. ' 1. Sound in breathing or speaking; 2. Impediments to inspiration or expiration; 3. Manner of breath- ing; 4. Cough; 5. Sound on percussion or auscultation; 6. Co- lour of the air-passages, lips, or cheeks; 7. Secretions; 8. Un- easy sensations; 9. Alterations of form. VII. Subject continued. Sanguiferous Systejn .... 75 IV. Sanguiferous System. Heart: 1. Frequency, 2- Force, 3. Regularity, of action; 4. Sounds emitted; 5. Respiration, on motion. Veins and Arteries: 1. Equilibrium; 2. Hardness, or dilatation. Blood: 1, Quantity; 2. Quality; 3. Secretions. VIII. Subject continued. Concoctive and Absorbent System . . 88 V. Concoctive and Absorbent System. 1. Impediments to the passage of the food and faeces; 2. Number and nature of evacu- ations; 3. Appetite; 4. Appearance of the tongue; 5. Uneasy sensations in the abdominal regions; 6. Fulness or flatness of the abdomen. IX. Subject continued. Urinary and Sexual Systems . . ' . 100 VI. Urinary system. 1. Quantity, 2. Impediment to the dis- charge, 3. Appearance, of the urine; 4. Uneasy sensations; 5. Time of retaining or passing the urine; 6. Tumours. VII. Sexual System. 1. Nature, 2. Quantity, of discharge; 3. Uneasy sensations; 4. Tumours; 5. Sexual povper, ACUTE AND SUB-ACUTE AFFECTIONS. X. Predisposition ......... 109 1. Hereditary : corporeal, mental, moral; 2. ^Etal: peculiarities of infancy, adult, and old age—management of children; 3. Sex- ual ; 4. Acquired : from debility, irritability, plethora, local and latent faults, certain occupations, and certain states of the air.