Urgent Symptoms in Medical Practice
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busy practitioner, as a handy book of reference. The significance of any particular symptom is here shown, without the delay of having to refer to text-books or monographs. The book is alphabetically arranged under headings such as follows (taken at random throughout the book) : abdominal pain ; abortion ; fatty stools ; hemiplegia ; leucorrhoea ; pain ; peritonitis; rheumatism; risus sardonicus; teething ; toxalmia ; vaginitis; and vomiting, etc., etc.
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