Note the dress of this 17th century physician in The Doctor's Visit (1657) by Frans van Mieris the Elder, as he decides on the type of therapy based on his patient's pulse.
Chapter 2. Physical Diagnosis
"Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone can you become expert. Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of the manifestations of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first."
— William Osler, MD
Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull 1919
Topics covered in this chapter include:
- Inspection
- The Pulse
- Recording the Temperature
- Auscultation
- Percussion
- Uroscopy
- Observation: When the end is near...
- Communicating the Diagnosis