Front Cover; Physical Diagnosis in Medicine; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. PRELIMINARY APPRAISAL OF THE PATIENT; PALLOR AND PLETHORA; CYANOSIS; PIGMENTATION; JAUNDICE; SPOT DIAGNOSIS; EXAMINATION OF THE HANDS; CHAPTER 2. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; APPEARANCE AND GENERAL BEHAVIOUR; THE SKULL; THE SPINE; CRANIAL NERVES; FIRST CRANIAL NERVE (OLFACTORY); SECOND CRANIAL NERVE (OPTIC NERVE); THE THIRD, FOURTH AND SIXTH CRANIAL NERVES; THE THIRD CRANIAL NERVE (OCULOMOTOR); THE FOURTH CRANIAL NERVE (TROCHLEAR); THE SIXTH CRANIAL NERVE (ABDUCENS)

THE FIFTH CRANIAL NERVE (TRIGEMINAL)THE SEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE (FACIAL); THE EIGHTH CRANIAL NERVE (ACOUSTIC); NINTH AND TENTH CRANIAL NERVES (GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL AND VAGUS); THE ELEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE (SPINAL-ACCESSORY); THE TWELFTH CRANIAL NERVE (HYPOGLOSSAL); EXAMINATION OF THE LIMBS AND TRUNK; EXAMINATION OF THE LOWER LIMB; NEUROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS; THE EXAMINATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS PATIENT; CHAPTER 3. THE CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM; THE PULSE; DETERMINATION OF THE BLOOD PRESSURE; THE EXAMINATION OF THE PULSATIONS IN THE NECK; EXAMINATION OF THE PRAECORDIUM; CARDIAC LESIONS

SIGNS OF CARDIAC FAILURESIGNS OF BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; PERICARDIAL LESIONS; CHAPTER 4. THE GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM; AREA IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER ABDOMINAL SWELLINGS; CHAPTER 5. THE HAEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; ANAEMIA; POLYCYTHAEMIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PURPURA; SPLENOMEGALY AND HEPATOMEGALY; CHAPTER 6. THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; CORRELATION OF THE PHYSICAL SIGNS WITH UNDERLYING PATHOLOGY; CHAPTER 7. THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; Thyrotoxicosis; Myxoedema; Addison's disease; Cushing's syndrome; Acromegaly; Hypopituitarism; Hypoparathyroidism; CHAPTER 8. EXAMINATION OF JOINTS; ARTHROPATHIES; INDEX