The Nurse's Table of Symptoms - part 1

Color of Skin -

Yellow - generally means jaundice

Sallow Yellow - when patien is haggard and emaciated means some malignant disease like cancer

Waxy Pale Skin - with swelling under eyes indicates Bright's disease

Whiteness - indicates anemia, poor quality of blood

Greenish White - shows chlorosis which is commonly called green disease

Purplish - cyanosis or a misture of pure and impure blood, blood not properly purified.

Bronze - Addison's disease

Hectic or Red cheeks - means tuberculosis constitution

Bluish or Inky Lips and tongue - Addison's disease.

Tongue

Strawberry tongue - Scarlet fever, at first looks like a unripe then a ripe strawberry.

Yellowish Brown - Liver trouble

Dry, Red, Dark and Cracked and Teeth covered with a coating -- generally means typhoid fever

Coated on Back Part - dyspepsia and constipation

Cracked and Red - last stages of peritonitis

Rashes

Scarlet color - Scarlet fever

Blotchy and Muddy - Measles

Scattered raised spots with whitish pimples - Chicken Pox

Spots containing water and pus -- Small pox

Spitting

Glairy Mucus - catarrh

Dark Blood spitting or vomiting - hemorrhage or bleeding from the stomach

Frothy red blood, spitting or vomit, hemorrhage or bleeding from the lungs or lower bronchial tubes

Vomiting

Yellow or Green - usually shows bile

resembles coffee grounds - malignant growth, probably cancer of the stomach

feces - vomiting of upper bowel, probably caused by an obstruction of the bowel

projectile vomiting - usually means meningitis

Dark acid brown - peritonitis

Bloating

Of Stomach - indigestion

Under eyes - kidney trouble

Of face - kidney trouble, heart trouble

Of Abdomen - cirrhoisis or hardening of the liver or possible ovarian tumor

Of legs and feet - Kidney trouble, often from pressure on the veins

Fever

shows rise in temperature.  Found in inflammatory diseases such as tonsilitis, gastritis, appendicitis, also in infectious diseases such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, also in acute rheumatism, pleurisy, pneumoia and nephritis.

* the Peoples Home Medical Book -- page 2

** remember these descriptions are from 1910 and should not be taken literally!  Consult a modern day physician before imagining the worst!!

*** this subject to be continued