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... patient ; or if old enough to speak , still , through fear , or from comprehending you but imperfectly , he will probably give you an incorrect reply . You try to gather informa- tion from the expression of his countenance , but the ...
... patient ; or if old enough to speak , still , through fear , or from comprehending you but imperfectly , he will probably give you an incorrect reply . You try to gather informa- tion from the expression of his countenance , but the ...
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... patient . Minute rules for your examina- tion of children from three years old and upwards are not needed ; but patience the most untiring , and good temper the most unruffled , are indispensable . The previous history of a patient ...
... patient . Minute rules for your examina- tion of children from three years old and upwards are not needed ; but patience the most untiring , and good temper the most unruffled , are indispensable . The previous history of a patient ...
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... patient . With this view you would ask whether the child has been vacci- nated , or has had the small - pox , and whether it has passed through any other of those affections -- such as chicken - pox , hooping - cough , measles , or ...
... patient . With this view you would ask whether the child has been vacci- nated , or has had the small - pox , and whether it has passed through any other of those affections -- such as chicken - pox , hooping - cough , measles , or ...
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... patient's efforts fail to dilate them , and by degrees more and more of the lung becomes dense , unaërated , and as useless for the time , for all purposes of respiration , as if it had been solidified by inflammation or compressed by ...
... patient's efforts fail to dilate them , and by degrees more and more of the lung becomes dense , unaërated , and as useless for the time , for all purposes of respiration , as if it had been solidified by inflammation or compressed by ...
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... patient's restlessness not seldom requires its employment . In all cases of cerebral excitement the use of opium calls for great watchfulness ; sometimes it must be given rather as an experiment whereby the real nature of the disease is ...
... patient's restlessness not seldom requires its employment . In all cases of cerebral excitement the use of opium calls for great watchfulness ; sometimes it must be given rather as an experiment whereby the real nature of the disease is ...
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abdomen adult affection appearance arachnoid attack attended auscultation become blood bowels brain breathing bronchi bronchial bronchitis calomel catarrh cause cerebral character chest child childhood chorea coma condition congestion considerable constipated continued convulsions cord cough course croup death degree dentition depletion deposit diarrhoea diphtheria disease disorder disturbance doses drowsiness dura mater dyspnoea early effusion epilepsy excited existed extreme false membrane fatal fever fluid frequent glands glottis hæmorrhage head hooping-cough hydrocephalus increase infant inflammation instances intestines irritation larynx less lungs measles mischief months morbid mucous mucous membrane nature nervous system notice observed occasionally occur organs pain paroxysms patient peculiar phthisis pia mater pleurisy pneumonia present pulse quantity remedies respiration result scarlatina scarlet fever seems seldom severe side skin slight softening sometimes spinal stage stomach substance suffering supervene surface symptoms takes place tion tracheotomy treatment tubercle tubercular ulceration urine usually ventricles vomiting weeks
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