The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D.

  • Potter, J. Hamilton.
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1852
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Credit: The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Diagnosis, (from Aa/maima to discern or distinguish.) The art of recognising a disease by its symptoms, and of distinguish- ing one disease from another. Diaphragm. The midriff—muscle separating the cavity of the chest from the abdomen. Diathesis. Any morbid peculiarity of constitution. Dysmenorrhea. Difficult or painful menstruation, with pain in the back, loins, &c. Effete. Barren, worn out, impoverished. Epiglottis. The cartilage at the root of the tongue that falls upon the glottis, or superior opening of the larynx. Expuition, (from exspuo, to spit out.) The act of spitting. Fauces. The back part of the mouth including, the pharynx. Fjeces. Alvine excretions. Gangrene. A mortification of living flesh. Glottis. Superior opening into the windpipe, at the larynx, covered by the epiglottis. Htdrothorax. Dropsy of the chest. Hydropneumothorax. Pneumothorax complicated with a serous infiltration. Hygeia. The goddess of health. Hygienic. Pertaining to health. Hysteria. Spasmodic disease, dependent on uterine irregularity. Larynx. The top of the windpipe, including the organs of voice. Laryngitis. Inflammation of the larynx. Leucorrhcea. Fluor albus. The whites, a secretion of whitish mucus from the vagina of women. Menorrhagia. Flooding, immoderate flow of the mense3 or of blood from the Uterus. Normal. Natural, healthy. (Edema. Tumefaction from serous effusion. CEsophagus. Gullet, or tube leading to the stomach. Parenchyma. The spongy and cellular substance or tissue that connects parts together. Pathognomonic. A term given to symptoms which are character- istic of, or peculiar to, a disease. Pathology. Science or doctrine of diseases. Parturition. Child-birth. Percussion, (from perculio, to strike.) Physical examination of the chest, abdomen, &c, by striking their walls; and is either mediate or immediate, direct or by a pleximeter. Phthisis, (from ipSiu, to consume.) Pulmonary consumption. Pharynx. Top of the oesophagus, or canal leading to the stomach.