Excerpt from The Medical Clinics of North America, Vol. 5: January, 1922 Examination on November 3d showed a rather pale, languid boy who evidently when well was quite bright and intelligent, complaining of pain in the epigastrium, which, however, was not very severe. His face was not flushed. The temperature was F the mucous membranes appeared slightly pale. The submaxillary, cervical, and inguinal lymph-nodes were just palpable. The epitrochlear and axillary nodes could not be felt. The skin was smooth and delicate, and there were no eruptions. There were scars of furuncles on the abdomen and back. The lungs were clear to auscultation and percussion. The maximum impulse of the heart was readily localized in the fourth space inside the midclavicular line. The heart was not enlarged. The sounds were clear, regular, and loud. There were no murmurs. The pulse was regular, 90 to the minute. The abdomen showed slight fulness in the epigastrium, where there was a moderate degree of tenderness. Here the abdominal wall was slightly more tense than elsewhere. There was no rigidity. The lower quadrants of the abdomen were soft and there was no tenderness. In the right costovertebral angle there was very slight tenderness. The edge of the liver was readily palpable in the midclavicular line 3 cm. Below the costal margin, and there seemed to be some tenderness over it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.