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... nature of a disease , and sometimes greatly modify our diagnosis and influence our plan of treatment . Really trustworthy information on these points , however , is often difficult to be obtained , and the attempt to elicit it is almost ...
... nature of a disease , and sometimes greatly modify our diagnosis and influence our plan of treatment . Really trustworthy information on these points , however , is often difficult to be obtained , and the attempt to elicit it is almost ...
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... nature of which is not yet quite apparent , to know which of the diseases incidental to childhood have already affected your patient . With this view you would ask whether the child has been vacci- nated , or has had the small - pox ...
... nature of which is not yet quite apparent , to know which of the diseases incidental to childhood have already affected your patient . With this view you would ask whether the child has been vacci- nated , or has had the small - pox ...
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... nature , so that the rule which safely defines the dose of an opiate would be altogether inapplicable as determining the strength of a purgative or of an emetic . The abstraction of blood , the use of emetics and purgatives , the ...
... nature , so that the rule which safely defines the dose of an opiate would be altogether inapplicable as determining the strength of a purgative or of an emetic . The abstraction of blood , the use of emetics and purgatives , the ...
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... nature of the disease is tested , and when so employed its results must be scrutinised with the most anxious care . In severe diarrhoea , too , the transition from a state of excitability of the nervous system to a condition of coma is ...
... nature of the disease is tested , and when so employed its results must be scrutinised with the most anxious care . In severe diarrhoea , too , the transition from a state of excitability of the nervous system to a condition of coma is ...
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... nature alone suffices for the patient's cure , and , while you watch carefully the approach of any serious symptoms , you will lose nothing in the confidence of the parents , and gain much in the love of your patients , by sparing them ...
... nature alone suffices for the patient's cure , and , while you watch carefully the approach of any serious symptoms , you will lose nothing in the confidence of the parents , and gain much in the love of your patients , by sparing them ...
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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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