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The Chest The greatest and most dangerous disease, and the one that proved fatal to the greatest number, was the consumption. —Hippocrates, Of the Epidemics POINTS TO REMEMBER: Diagnosis of…

Male Genitalia … The husband had long been suffering from ulcers in the private parts, and his wife insisted on seeing them, promising that no one would give him a…

The Head Men’s heads are by no means all like to one another, nor are the sutures of the head of all men constructed in the same form. —HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS…

The Vital Signs At this point it is necessary that you see a bullfight. If I were to describe one it would not be the one that you would see,…

Female Genitalia Members of generation are common to both sexes, or peculiar to one; which, because they are impertinent to my purpose, I do voluntarily omit. —ROBERT BURTON, ANATOMY OF…

Clinical Reasoning If the fresh facts which come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. —SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE ADVENTURES OF…

The Oropharynx Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. —GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1632), CHURCH PORCH, STANZA 22 POINTS TO REMEMBER: In examining the mouth, the special method of olfaction may be…

Veins All the blood is under the jurisdiction of the heart. The twelve blood vessels are deeply hidden between the muscles and cannot be seen. Only those on the outer…

The Ear Nature, I am persuaded, did not without a purpose frame our ears open, putting thereto no gate at all, nor shutting them up with any manner of inclosures,…