| Description Of Item | Printed in the Medical Times and Gazette with illustrations. There are 11 lectures on physiognomical diagnosis covering the importance of diagnosis of constitutions in practice, diathetic diagnosis, methods of observation, how influence of hereditary tendencies should be determined, temperament, handwriting as modified by the nervous system, diagnosis of degeneration, degenerations of nervous system, diathetic diagnosis of pulmonary consumption, physiognomy of the scrofulous diseases, syphilitic scrofula, rheumatic consumption, diathetic diagnosis of gouty or atheromatous consumptions and haemoptysis, diathetic diagnosis of Bright's disease and or cardiac and renal dropsies, oedema and anasarca, the diagnosis of blood diseases and skin diseases.
The lecture on practical therapeutics covers the difficulties of therapeutical inquiry and observation, tonics, strychnine, quinine, iodide of potassium, mercury and podophyllin.
Includes inserts: notes on precordial vascularity and the beard and complexion, at February 1st 1862; and letter from Arthur Mitchell concerning the ears of idiots and imbeciles with additional notes, December 2nd 1861. |