Quotation from: Manual of SurgeryWritten by: Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson |
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_Clinical Features._--The patient is in a state of prostration. He is roused from his condition of indifference with difficulty, but answers questions intelligently, if only in a whisper. The face is pale, beads of sweat stand out on the brow, the features are drawn, the eyes sunken, and the cheeks hollow. The lips and ears are pallid; the skin of the body of a greyish colour, cold, and clammy. The pulse is rapid, fluttering, and often all but imperceptible at the wrist; the respiration is irregular, shallow, and sighing; and the temperature may fall to 96 F. or even lower. The mouth is parched, and the patient complains of thirst. There is little sensibility to pain.
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