Medical Diagnosis, with Special Reference to Practical Medicine: A Guide to the Knowledge and Discrimination of Diseases

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J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 784 pages
 

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Page 33 - ... a sharp nose, hollow eyes, collapsed temples; the ears cold, contracted, and their lobes turned out: the skin about the forehead being rough, distended, and parched; the color of the whole face being green, black, livid, or lead-colored.
Page 313 - My life is in the hands of any rascal who chooses to annoy and tease me," was a saying of John Hunter's.
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Page 564 - O, which is perfectly insoluble in water. This method has, further, this advantage, that we simultaneously determine the amount of chlorine in the urine. The following are the main steps in the process. In order to remove the phosphates and sulphates of the urine, a definite quantity of the...
Page 47 - The general results which he has arrived at are the following : — " 1. There is probably a continued elevation of the (temperature) of the body in all cases in which a deposition of tubercle is taking place in any of its organs.
Page 46 - Stability of temperature from morning to evening is a good sign; on the other hand, if the temperature remains stable from evening till the morning, it is a sign that the patient is getting or will get worse.

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