A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec].

  • Sharpe, James Birch
Date:
1832
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Credit: A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    284. In the two former cases, on pressing the abdomen in the hypochondriac region, it is probable a gurgling would become manifest, arising from the introduction of intestinal gas into the emptied cavity of the liver. 285. In the latter case, that is, of fistulous communication between the abscess of the liver and the bronchiæ, there is no doubt that ca- vernous cough and respiration, and cavernous rhonchus also would be perceived, and probably the transmission of the voice through the stetho- scope; and if the excavation should be very great, the metallic tinkling would be manifest. In Diseases of the Ear. 286. The stethoscope should be furnished with an obturator of smaller dimensions at its external end, for the purpose of the auscultation of the ear and parts adjacent. 287. The stethoscope applied upon the mas- toid process, and also upon the other cavi- ties of the face, will render the circulation of the air in these cavities perfectly audible: and the voice also will be heard to resound through them. This resonance is called rhinophony.