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Is the stool more eloquent than the pulse?

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I've always found the stool  more eloquent  than the pulse   A quote from the Madness of King George, from a physician carrying the royal bedpan.  Though observation of excretions are important, they are rarely used in medical illustration.  Saggittal sections, though are common as illusatrations of the human body Anatomy is the traditional bedrock in illustrating medicine for doctors and nurses and yet it can be used inappropriately: sagittal sections of male and female partners during sexual intercourse, for instance, are an example of extreme violence if taken literally. The same applies to coronal section of the brain. Dissection plays a smaller part in medical training than it used to; perhaps because we seek images that convey the living quality of health and disease. Scans have become popular in TV science programmes but do they really convey as much as we are led to believe or are they just a convenient way of drawing attention to one part of