What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription

Section 08 — Head

James Tyler Kent · What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription · 20 passages

Describe any pain as in Section 6.

Describe any sores, lumps, or skin disease as in Sections 7 and 32.

For sensation in head see Section 4.

Is the hair very dry or naturally moist ?

Does it split at the ends ?

Does it tangle easily, how ?

Does it come out badly ?

Any dandruff ?

Quantity, shape and appearance.

Is the hair oily or greasy ?

Does it break off, or mat together ?

Does it come out in spots or bunches.

Be sure to give the exact location of any trouble of the head and whether internal or external.

Dizziness. Describe as in Section 5.

What position, motion, or cause brings on the dizziness ?

What is the sensation ?

Do you, feel like falling in any particular direction ?

Does it affect the sight ?

Do you feel as if swaying to and to, in a circle, falling, rising, floating, as if bed were sinking, things about You were moving, etc.

Give all the particulars.