Lectures On The Specific Fevers And Diseases Of The Chest

Author : Alfred Hudson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267446971
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the Study of Fever (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Hudson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the Study of Fever The primary object of your examination of a patient is to asoer tain the nature and extent of the deviations from health in the several functions, and the changes, if any, in the physical condition of the several organs. Your ability to undertake this task pre supposes an acquaintance with the body in health in the most com prehensive sense; with the laws of healthy function; and with the physical signs by which you ascertain the healthy condition of the viscera of the chest and abdomen, their bulk, situation, and relation to each other. To these you refer as standards of comparison in your examination of the same organs in disease. This last is a preli minary qualification so, easy of acquirement, and, at the same time, so neglected by students, that I may be excused for pressingit upon your attention. The value of all physical signs depends on com parison with healthy standards. Alterations in the shape of one side-of the chest, dulness on percussion, absence or change of re spiratory sounds, also of the sounds of the heart in different situa tions, are all determined by comparison; first, with corresponding parts in the same individual, but ultimately, though tacitly and. Instinctively, as it were, with standards consisting of our memory' of the healthy signs. And yet'how often does some student 'press forward to the bedside, that he may listen to diseased phenomena, who has never heard the sounds of the heart or lung in health. The same rule applies to the derangements of function. To' observe these with accuracy, you must be familiarly acquainted with their healthy exercise, and, cetert's paribus, the student whose knowledge of physiology is the most perfect will excel as an oh server of disease - as a pathologist in the true meaning of the term. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.