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GENERAL DIAGNOSIS.
from nervous irritation. They have each their peculiar
character.
inflammatory Pain.-Tenderness of part, increased
by pressure; throbbing or burning continuous, and at-
tended by febrile excitement.
Spasmodic Pain.-Paroxysmal, not throbbing nor
burning; relieved by pressure, and seldom attended
with fever.
Neuralgic Pain.-By this we mean pain in a nerve;
is transient but violent, no swelling, no heat, and easily
renewed by touch.
ALIMENTARY CANAL.-Appearanes of the alvine dis-
charges-clay-colored faeces indicate deficiency of bile,
met with in jaundice and hepatitis. Watery and reddish
stools, like the washings of flesh; the same mucous and
bloody stools also.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.-The function of the lungs
differ from the other organs in this circumstance-it is
performed with a noise;-in sound physiology it must
be expected that when the function of these parts are
disturbed, the physiological sound will become patholo-
gical; that the sound will be altered, and such is the
fact. Accelerated respiration is always attended With
frequency of the pulse; slow, irregular, and stertorous
breathing attends a high degree of cerebral compression.
The peculiar respiration in hydrothorax, is that the
inspiration is quick and with great effort, and that the
respiration is slower and without effort. The effects of
corporeal exertion on respiration produces great dys-
p.noea (difficulty of breathing) in hydrothorax, and still
more in organic cardiac affections.
Wheezing Respiration.-In asthma, cynanche trache-
alis, (croup,) hurried, panting and heaving respiration,58
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/58/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.