What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.

  • London Medical Society of Observation.
Date:
1853
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Credit: What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    § ir. D.] FAMILY HISTORY OF PATIENT. [PAUT I. Children. illness is stated to be a miscarriage); their presumed causes; their seqncltc. 32. Children:—their number; period of time with- in which pnxluced; their sex. Lactation— 33. Lactation;—number of children nursed at a menstruation during. time j duration of each period of lactation ; supply of inilk.—Menstruation during lactation; its character, periodicity, duration, quantity, quality, etc. (26). § II. D. D.—FAMILY HISTORY OF PATIENT. Parents. 31. ParenU:—living or dead? age at which either died;—their general state of health; diseases from which they were known to have suffered, mania, syphilis, gout, etc.;—their habits, temperate or in- temperate ?—fatal diseases, phthisis, etc. (proof derived from some distinct symptoms). Uncles or aunts. 35. Uncles or aunts (noting whether paternal or maternal):—diseases to which they have been subject; —if dead, age at death and fatal diseases. Brothers or sisters. 36. Brothers or sisters:—numl)er of each living; number of each dead (note whether these were born before or subsequently to patient, and whether during the same or some other marriage);—diseases from which they have sufferetl; ages at death; fatal disease.s. Children. 37. Children:—number of each sex;—their health; any difference in the health of elder, younger, or of the two sexes ;—children dead; ages at death; fatal diseases. Nephews or nieces. 88. Nephews or nieces:—their health;—if any have died, ages at death, and fatal diseases. Family diseases, etc. 39. Family diseases and peculiarities:—tempera- ment; malformations; tendency to bleed on trifling injuries, etc. (sex presenting these peculiarities).— Fecundity of females.—Presumed family diseases; age at which any hereditary disease has appeared in any members of the family, epilepsy, insanity, phthisis, gout, etc.—General duration of life in family.