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Physiology for the Public; Plain Principles and Rules for the Preservation of the Functions of Both Body and Mind in a State of Health, Lectures
George Thomas Hayden
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-18.
ISBN 9781150228544
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE VIII. Great demands are, indeed, made upon the student as well as the practitioner of medicine, in a physical, intellectual, and moral point of view. Of the last we have already spoken at p. 171. We shall, with your permission, consider the other two on the present occasion. Let us first look to the senses. The objects of sight should receive the closest attention; what an infinite source of information the eye proves to be : witness, for instance, the diseases of infants, where we are shut out from all description on the part of the patient. Many diseases have such peculiar features, that a single glance enables the skilful practitioner to detect the malady : the peritonitic position, the risus sardonicus of locked jaw, and the facies Hippocratica of death, once observed can never be forgotten. It is surprising how much we can educate our senses, more especially that of touch. Look at the remarkable acuteness of the blind in this respect. The erudite sense of the practitioner, evinced in hernia, and in discovering deep seated matter. In practice you must be, in many instances, a St. Thomas, and be determined exclusively, by the evidence of this unparalleled sense. The advantages which modern pathology has acquired from the practice of auscultation -- the certainty with reference to physical signs, derived from the stethescope, places the sense of hearing with reference to professional objects, in a paramount point of view. But the sense, we regret to say, which is most perverted, even by medical men, is that of smelling. Now, we do say, with great rfwrespect for snuffing and smoking, tha
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