What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription

Section 07 — Discharges of all kinds

James Tyler Kent · What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription · 8 passages

This refers to discharges from open sores, boils, fistulas, ulcers, etc., from the eyes, nose, cars, mouth, private parts, lungs, the skin, etc.

Give the quantity and the time or condition under which the quantity varies. (Section 5.)

Give the consistency, whether thin or thick, stringy, clotted like jelly, white of an egg, gruel, water, etc., etc.

The appearance, just what it looks like, the color, and the time or condition when the appearance varies.

The odor, what it reminds you of ; whether the odor varies and the time and circumstances of the variation.

Whether it makes the parts sore, and in what way ; whether the discharge has any effect on your feeling or strength ; how long it has continued ; whether the discharge comes and goes, and the time and circumstance of this variation.

Whether it is sticky, forms a scab, etc.

Mention anything else about it that you may notice.