338 PHYSICAL EXPRESSION. 



" 64 Of the general expression of the coun- 

 tenance I shall rarely venture to speak. It affords 

 an important and essential source of information in 

 Dispensary practice, 50, and assists the experienced 

 physician in discerning the nature of the disease 

 where the superficial observer sees only the general 

 look of indisposition." 



" 121. I employ the term attitude in a rather 

 comprehensive sense, intending to embrace, under 

 this head, the consideration of the postures and 

 'motions of the body, the state of muscular debility, 

 power, contraction, and motion, some particular 

 actions, and the general manner of the patient." 



11 125. Certain movements of the head, certain 

 actions of the hand, and certain peculiarities of the 

 general manner, also occur as characteristic of par- 

 ticular diseases, and will be noticed hereafter." 



" 127. In healthy and undisturbed sleep, the 

 usual posture is that on one side, the body being 

 frequently inclined rather to the prone than to the 

 supine position ; the head and shoulders are gene- 

 rally somewhat raised, and together with the thorax, 

 bent generally forwards; the thighs and legs are 

 in a state of easy flexion. The position is apt to be 

 changed from time to time, the person lying on one 

 or other side alternately." 



" 133. In the severe forms of Typhus Fever the 

 position of the patient becomes more and more 

 supine, and the actions more and more tremulous ; 

 from being able to retain the posture on the side, 

 perhaps, the patient falls upon his back, with the 

 lower extremities extended and sometimes with a 



