This book contains, first, a scheme or syllabus to show the Pr?Per method for the systematic clinical investigation of disease, secondly, under the heading of the various organs, an index ? the chief symptoms and signs met with in different diseases. index also gives a brief account of some important symp?ms> of the alterations of the excretions in disease, and an ^planation of the scientific t...

As with so many studies requiring close clinicopathological correlation and specialised techniques, many of the major contributions to peripheral nevre pathology have been made by clinicians rather than pathologists. As a result, the general pathologist has tended to ignore many of the recent advances in peripheral nerve pathology and trainees in pathology often fail to appreciate that with rel...

Little research has examined agreements and disagreements between clinical evaluations of sanity and the subsequent legal dispositions. Few studies have examined the level of agreement between clinical evaluation of sanity and subsequent legal disposition. For example, Fukunaga and his associates I found an exceptionally high concordance rate of93 percent, which may be partially explained by Ha...

Despite ample proof to the contrary, the overwhelming number of health care practitioners still believe that acromegaly is a disease that they will rarely encounter, let alone have to treat. However, the reality is quite a bit different for both doctors and patients. Many of the obvious symptoms and signs of this disease manifest slowly and insidiously. As such, the majority of patients are oft...

Sarcoidois of the gingiva is rarely the primary manifestation of the disease. The following case presentation highlights clinical signs and symptoms that are not uncommon or unusual except for the anatomical location of the initial expression. Appropriate treatment must be based on a definitive diagnosis which, in turn, requires a biopsy for histologic analysis.

I work as a staff nurse on a surgical ward and often care for patients following thyroidectomy. I am aware of the signs and symptoms of possible post-operative complications, but this article improved my understanding of their physiological and medical background.

The public health movement has been concerned with the relation between housing and health for well over a century. Nevertheless the Black Report still identified housing as one of the major causes of ill-health and suggested, on one indicator at least, that council housing is the least healthy form of tenure. An exploratory study concerning housing and health in a north eastern local authority...

After any therapy, when symptoms improve, healthcare providers (and patients) are tempted to award credit to treatment. Over time, a particular treatment can seem so undeniably helpful that scientific verification of efficacy is judged an inconvenient waste of time and resources. Unfortunately, practitioners' accumulated, day-to-day, informal impressions of diagnostic reliability and clinical e...