Notes of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine : delivered in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia / by John Eberle.

  • Eberle, John, 1787-1838.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Notes of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine : delivered in the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia / by John Eberle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inflammation, loilh acute pain; fixed, carefully avoiding all motion and pressure; generally on the back, knees drawn up, and head and shoul- ders a little elevated. Position assumed of spasmodic pains in the ab- domen: constantly changing posture, desirous of pressure on the abdomen, recumbent on the belly, &c. Position on the back, with knees constantly elevated in the latter stage of acute diseases, a sign of re- tention of urine. The Tongue. Attention to be paid to its colour, its surface, its shape, and the manner in which it is protruded. t/2 white and slightly loaded tongue, indicative of slight gastric derangement and moderate febrile excitement. A clean, deep red, smooth tongue, indicates inflam- mation or high irritation of the mucous mem- brane of the stomach and intestinal canal. Tongue seldom much affected in acute symptoma- tic fevers, from wounds or external inflamma- tions. Florid papillae protruding through a layer of white fur, characteristic of scarlatina. (Hall.) Diagnosis, from the appearance of the tongue, be- tween phthisis, and hectic with cough, from he- patic and gastric affections; tongue natural in the former; covered with brown fur in the latter. A pale and tumid tongue, with large papillae, indi- cative of gastric debility—met with in chlorosis. A contracted and pointed tongue, frequently an attendant on cerebral or meningeal inflamma- tion. A flabby and dilated tongue occurs in congestive stales of fever. (Miner.) A yellow and bitter tongue, indicative of biliary derangement.