On the study of the hand for indications of local and general disease / by Edward Blake.

Blake, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), 1842-1905.

Date:: 1899

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the study of the hand for indications of local and general disease / by Edward Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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CONTENTS. Introduction. Sec. 1. Temperature; Dryness; Moisture; Movement. Sec. 2. Colour and Texture. Sec. 3. The Nails: Their Development; Form; Colour; Distortion and Disease Generally. ~ t -r, I Animal. Sec. 4. Parasites j Vegetable. Sec. 5. Eruptions ; Invasions. Scabietic. Syphilitic. Tubercular. bEC. b. whitlow . Infective (Washerwoman's Disease). I As a Symptom of General Disease, as Syringomyelia. Sec. 7. Hyperkeratosis. Sec. 8. Form of Hand, and especially of Fingers— Heberden's Nodes. Haygarth's Nodosities. Dupuytren's Contraction. Sec. 9. Clubbed Fingers, their Clinical Significance— Marie's Disease. Acromegaly. Sec. 10. Secretion. Sec. 11. Sensation. Sec. 12. Tremor; Palsy. Sec. 13. Occupation Neuroses. Sec. 14. The Pulse ; Dynamics of Respiration ; Fallacies of the Radial Pulse ; Chloroform Syncope. Appendix on Achondroplasia. List of Authors. Bibliography. Notes and References. Index.