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,…

The Rectum They say man has succeeded where the animals fail because of the clever use of his hands, yet when compared to the hands, the sphincter ani is far…

The Nose I tell you, the old doctor who could cure you of every illness has all but vanished and you find nothing but specialists these days…. If you have…

The Neck Cervicium dolores butyro aut adipe ursino prefricentur, rigores bubulo sebo, quod strumis prodest cum oleo. Dolorem inflexibilem —opisthotonum vocant—levat urina caprae auribus…. (Pains in the neck should be…

Lymph Nodes It showed its first signs in men and women alike by means of swelling in the groin or under the armpits, some of which grew to the size…