A System for Case-Taking: With Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George William Ross

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0484521632 ISBN 13: 9780484521635

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A System for Case-Taking: With Explanatory Notes

III. It' the illness be acute the symptoms will likely be accurately noted by the patient, and should be very helpful to the physician in reaching a diagnosis, e.g., the pain of pleurisy. If, however, the disorder has been of some duration, the earliest disturbances may be obscured by the later, and these alone are often communicated to the physician. As it is always important to discover the earliest symptoms or signs of a. Departure from normal health, we should make some such enquiry as When last were you quite yourself? Having fixed this date, further interrogation uill usually elicit the earliest symptoms of the disease, e.g., good health may be succeeded by insidious weakness and wasting, whilst only latoi do the more definite Symptoms, such as cough and expectora tion assert themselves, as in pulmonary tuberculosis. Was the apparent onset preceded by slight ailments, such. As cold. Sore throat. Etc?

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0484521632
• ISBN 13: 9780484521635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72