An Introduction to the Symptoms and Signs of Surgical Disease

Book excerpt: The bedrock of every good clinician's success is the ability to obtain correct history and elicit all the abnormal physical signs from a patient. Professor Browse's highly successful text takes the student step by step through the systematic application of the principles of history taking and clinical examination. The revised and updated second edition contains a description of the techniques of history taking and clinical examination, and a detailed account of the symptoms and signs of the commn surgical diseases. These descriptions are presented under the same headings used to describe the methods of examination. This is done to emphasize and impress upon the reader the importance of a systematic approach. The symtoms and signs are then analysed and interpreted to show the reader how to deduce the diagnosis