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Arteries How should it happen that, if you tie the arteries, immediately the parts not only become torpid, and frigid, and look pale, but at length cease even to be…

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,…

The Abdomen Every month for three successive days they purge themselves, for their health’s sake, with emetics and clysters, in the belief that all disease comes from the food a…

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 Extremities For more than twenty years I have amused my compulsory leisure with collecting these curious physical signatures in this town. At my house I have hundreds and hundreds…

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…

Some Bedside Laboratory Tricks As Ponocrates grew familiar with Gargantua’s vicious manner of studying, he began to plan a different course of education for the lad; but at first he…

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…