Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . ly seen in old age. It cannotbe insisted upon too strongly that temperature in the agedshould be always taken in the rectum only. The pulse in oldage is worse than useless as a diagnostic agent, for it will oftendeceive us. As arteriosclerosis is almost always present, theartery is harder than in maturity and we get a hard pulse thatmay simulate the pulse of serous inflammations. We mayget this pulse in aortic stenosis in which condition the pulse
Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . ly seen in old age. It cannotbe insisted upon too strongly that temperature in the agedshould be always taken in the rectum only. The pulse in oldage is worse than useless as a diagnostic agent, for it will oftendeceive us. As arteriosclerosis is almost always present, theartery is harder than in maturity and we get a hard pulse thatmay simulate the pulse of serous inflammations. We mayget this pulse in aortic stenosis in which condition the pulse isusually small, slow and weak and we may get the same pulse inaortic insufficiency in which disease in maturity we get thewater hammer pulse. There are many conditions beyond theaortic orifice to modify the radial pulse and destroy its value asa diagnostic agent. Blood pressure in the aged has not beenstudied sufficiently nor have similar findings received similarinterpretations. As we have in almost every senile casearteriosclerosis and contracted kidney, two causes for increasedpressure, high readings are physiological but no standard for.
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