PREFACE.

THE following pages have been written with the intention of removing some of the difficulties which the student always-and the practitioner frequently -must encounter, while studying disease in its Protean forms at the bedside. Remembering my own impressions of bewilderment on beginning to "walk the hospital," I have honestly endeavored to simplify the task for others; and should this treatise be the means of doing so, I shall feel greatly rewarded for my exertions.

CHARLOTTE STREET, BEDFORd Square,

February, 1855.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE CLINICAL STUDY OF DISEASE.

SECTION 1. ON THE FACULTY OF OBSERVATION,

SECTION 2. THE GENERAL CONDUCT OF THE PRACTI-

TIONER OF MEDICINE,

SECTION 3. THE CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF A PATIENT,

Examination of the Exterior,.

Thoracic Viscera, .

Abdomen,.

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Present General Condition of the Patient,

Examination of Female Patients,

SECTION 4. THE CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF CHILDREN.

SECTION 5. MODE OF TAKING NOTES OF A CASE.

Condition,

Condition of Nervous System, .

Organs of Respiration and Circulation,

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SECTION 7. MODE OF MAKING A POST-MORTEM EXAMINA-

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Urinary and Generative Organs,

SECTION 8. MODE OF TAKING NOTES OF A POST-MORTEM

EXAMINATION,

General Observations,

Examination of Head, Face, Mouth, and Fauces,

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SECTION 9. THE CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF THE Insane,

Investigation of the Physiognomy,

Actions,

The Conversation of the Insane,

The Memory, Written Letters, &c., of the Insane,

Certificates of Insanity,

Medical Case Book,

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EXAMINATION OF PERSONS FOR LIFE AS-

SURANCE,

Different knowledge required in Life Office to the Con-
sulting-room,

Points especially to attend to in Examination of Applicant,
Aphorisms on the Value of certain Lives,

SECTION 11. ON MEDICO-LEGAL INVESTIGATIONS,

CHAPTER II.

ON THE INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN THE DIAGNOSIS

OF DISEASE.

SECTION 1. ON THE MICROSCOPE,

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The Student's Microscope,

The Simple Microscope, .

The Compound Microscope,

The Magnifying Powers of the best Object-glasses,

Standards of Measurement,

SECTION 2. ON THE TEST-TRAY,

The Apparatus required in Medical Chemistry, .

Dr. Lionel Beale's Cabinet of Apparatus and Reagents,

SECTION 3. ON THE SPIROMETER,

Hutchinson's Spirometer,

Mode of Testing the Vital Capacity,

Coxeter's Portable Spirometer,

Pereira's Spirometer,

SECTION 4. ON THE COMMON TAPE-MEASURE, STETHOME-

TER, PLEXIMETER, STETHOSCOPE, ETC.,

The Common Tape-measure,

Mode of ascertaining the Circumference and Mobility of

SECTION 5. ON THE DYNAMOMETER.

SECTION 6. ON THE INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED FOR MAKING

LOCAL APPLICATIONS TO THE LARYNX, ETC.

SECTION 7. ON THE OPHTHALMOSCOPE.

SECTION 8. ON THE SPECULUM UTERI, UTERINE SOUND,

ETC.,