The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-07-18

health is about 20 for the male and rs
iorthe female. We judge of the pulse
inferentially of the force Of the hearts
action, 4. e., the. force of the arter,al
impulse of the excitability of the ner.
vous system, and also Of the fullress of
the tlood.vessels, and of the tone and
physical condition of the arteries.
The pulse in disease may be natural,
or strong, weak, firm, yielding, full,
small, bounding, compressible, rapid,
slow, jerking, soft, tense, gaseous, cord
ed, wiry, threaded, imperceptible, regu.
lar, irregular, and intermittent.
The pulse in fever is characterized by
acceleration, with increase of force in
the beat. The pulse in inflammation
with fever) is not only faster, but hard
or tuse, and commonly full.
The pulse of Nervous irritation is
usually quick, aud variable in rapidity
and force, under excitement on the con.
trary. The pulse Of extreme debility is
nearly always Gas in the dying state)
very rapid and very small or ''thready."
Irregularity Of the pulse is often natu-
raj, sometimes it comes on with old age.
1t is found in certain cases of disease of
the Heart, and in meninge lis Gnfa nation
OF the membranes Of the brain) during
the stage of affusion.
Double pulse is observed especially in
continued levers, either Typhus or Ty.
phoid. .Patholegists explain it as a loss of
muscular tone in the arteries
The tongue is an organ which is of
the utmost importance to study with
reference to its appearance in disease.
1t may be natural, pale, cold, red, fur
red, brown, black, cracked or fssured.
1t is pale in Anemia red in Scarla.
tiua. Stoma tits and in some cases of
gastritis. Furred in in indigestion Gas,
tro-hepatic Fever and other Fevers.
Brown Or black, cracked, dry ard fis.
sured in low fevers as Typhoid and Ty.
phus. Some times it has a bright red
smooth shining appearance, and is pro-
trudcd with difficulty in low levers.
The manner of cleaning of the tongue
during convalescence, should be par.ic,
ularly noticed, if it cleans gradually with
a healthy pink appearance, your patient
is certainly gradually regaining his
health. If on the contrary the tongue
becomes suddenly clean and scarlet with
a smooth shining appearance, the disease
is assuming Typhoid character.
The Eye affords many indications of
disease. The movents of the Eve should
be particularly noticed in children !;
rolling of the eyeballs from sideto side is
symptom of nervous restlessness, or irs
ritation of the brain. If Squirting oc.
ours, as a symptom in disease, it is very
unfavorable. The lustre, that is the
brightness oc the eye, is lessoned gen.
orally in acute disease, they become
dull and heavy, But in consuplion
they often become remarkably brig ht
but sunken. In some cases of infama-
tion of the brain and of mania, they
have fixed glare. The color varies i"
some diseases especially in i..r.r.ap
of the eye. In u u ,tivitis ae "i 'od
vessels are generally enlarged aud the
membrane red. In inflammation of the
Sclerotic or next coat the ealarg-
ed vessels are seen connecting or run.
ming to point on the margin Of the cor.
nea, or dark part of the Eye In Iritis
(the part which gives color to the eyc),
discoloration irregularity, and sometimes
fxedness of the pupil occurs i the pu-
pill will neither contract nor expand.
The pupil is generally contracted in
inflammation Of the brain and in poison
ing by Opium. 1t is dilated or enlarged
usually in Apoplexy, Dropsy of the
brain, Or poisoning by belladonna or
Stranonium An immovable state Of
the pupil or a difference in the size
indicates disease of the braian'
The color o Me skin varies much in
disease. Thus the face is pale in "Au
emia," and fainting, Flashed in feaver
and congestion of the brain. Cheeks
highly flushed in hectic fever. Fore
head and eyes flushed in early stages of
yellow fever. Purple or li,id in low
continued fever. Sallow in chlorosis
dyspepsia aud cancer. Blue in collapse
of cholera and almost black in Strangu.
lation.