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A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis

Name: A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis
Author: James Campbell Todd

by James Campbell Todd

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A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis is a public-domain classic of science by James Campbell Todd.

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Author: James Campbell Todd
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CHAPTER I

The Sputum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Physical Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Microscopic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Unstained Sputum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Stained Sputum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sputa in Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

CHAPTER II

The Urine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Physical Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chemic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Normal Constituents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Abnormal Constituents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Microscopic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Unorganized Sediments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Organized Sediments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Extraneous Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 The Urine in Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

CHAPTER III

The Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Hemoglobin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Enumeration of Erythrocytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Color Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Enumeration of Leukocytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Leukocytosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Leukemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Enumeration of Blood-plaques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Study of Stained Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Making and Staining Blood-films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Study of Stained Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Blood Parasites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Serum Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Tests for Recognition of Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Special Blood Pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Anemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Leukemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

CHAPTER IV

The Stomach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Examination of the Gastric Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Obtaining the Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Physical Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Chemic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Microscopic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 The Gastric Contents in Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Additional Examinations Which Give Information as to the Condition of the Stomach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

CHAPTER V

The Feces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Macroscopic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Chemic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Microscopic Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

CHAPTER VI

Animal Parasites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Protozoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Vermes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Arthropoda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

CHAPTER VII

Miscellaneous Examinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Pus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Peritoneal, Pleural, and Pericardial Fluids . . . . . . . . . . 265 Cerebrospinal Fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Animal Inoculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 The Mouth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 The Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Parasitic Diseases of the Skin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Syphilitic Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Semen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

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