Show FACIAL SYMPTOMS indications indication that teu tell a doctor what you ton may be suffering when a doctor looks at you in the street he may know your aliments ailments says the new york journal facial expression can and does to a considerable extent indicate the character of disease from a diagnostic and prognostic point of view pain is invariably clearly written on the face contraction of the brow indicates pain in the forehead sharpness and contraction about the nostrils indicate pain in the chest A drawing of the upper lip indicates pain in the abdomen the upper third of the face 1 is modified in expression in aff affections sections of the brain the middle third in diseases of the chest and the lower third in those of the abdominal organs I 1 I 1 heart disease is indicated by blue lips i high colored mottled cheeks paleness about the nose and mouth and puffiness of the face generally kidney diseases are shown by puffiness puffin esa of the lower eyelids and pale face there is a drawing of the mus muscles C les of the mouth as if the patient were laughing in a sardonic way in tetanus or lockjaw an a n intense expression of mingled few fear and an d anxiety in hydrophobia and of deep anxiety in asphyxia then there them are the flushed face and bright eye afi of typhus and pneumonia the bri bright cheek and pale face of cons consumption 11 emption I 1 and the dull heavy stupid expression I 1 in the faces of children suffering from swollen tonsils or growth at the back of the nose |