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Barbara liked this no one in the matron's room had ever exhibited such a clinical interest in the case before, and she thinks "fwacture" rather imposing. "Let me feel his pulse," I said. I held a waxen arm between my thumb and forefinger, and looked at my wrist-watch for some seconds, Barbara gazing at me intently. "Hum! hum!
"For a little while, then," so Jan salved her conscience. "Just till we all shake down ... and your hair begins to grow." Meg stood up very straight and shook her finger at Jan. "Remember, I'm to be a real, proper nurse with authority, and a clinical thermometer ... and a uniform." "If you like, and it's a pretty uniform." Meg danced gleefully round the table. "It will be lovely, it is lovely.
The most common seats of the condition are the lower end of the femur, the upper end of the tibia, and the bones of the pelvis. The clinical features are those of a pulsating tumour of slow development, and as in true aneurysm, the pulsation and bruit disappear on compression of the main artery.
The correctness of his judgment was proved by the short trip to Berlin which I took with my mother, aided by my brother Martin, who was then a physician studying with the famous clinical doctor Schonlein. It was attended with cruel suffering and the most injurious results, but it was necessary for me to return to my comfortable winter quarters.
It must be observed, however, that burns met with at the bedside always illustrate more than one of these degrees, the deeper forms always being associated with those less deep, and the clinical picture is made up of the combined characters of all. A burn is classified in terms of its most severe portion.
He thrust a clinical thermometer beneath the Kavirondo's tongue, glancing at a wrist watch as he did so. "Cazi Moto," he said calmly after three minutes, "this man is a liar. He is not sick; he merely wants to get out of carrying a load." The Kavirondo, his eyes rolling, shot forth a torrent of language.
The clinical features resemble those associated with varicose veins, but the entrance of arterial blood into the dilated veins causes them to pulsate, and produces in them a vibratory thrill and a loud murmur. In those at the groin, the distension of the veins may be so great that they look like sinuses running through the muscles, a feature that must be taken into account in any operation.
"No, but I have always intended to, and in fact I came up here to-day to see a couple of rake-hell fellows I know, Fargeau and Duchesne, doctors in the Clinical Hospital beyond here, up by the Parc Mont Souris.
An edition of his basic and clinical works was translated into English in 1657, and Latin editions continued to be published well into the eighteenth century.
It was not until many years later, early in the second half of the century, that the clinical thermometer came into general use, but it soon showed most strikingly the superiority of the "instrument of precision" to the unaided senses of man.
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