Clinical researches on auscultation of the respiratory organs, and on the first stage of phthisis pulmonalis. Part 1 / by Jules Fournet ; translated from the French by Thomas Brady.

  • Fournet Jules.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Clinical researches on auscultation of the respiratory organs, and on the first stage of phthisis pulmonalis. Part 1 / by Jules Fournet ; translated from the French by Thomas Brady. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The researches contained in this work are directed to two objects. 1°. the auscultation of the respiratory organs conducted upon prin- ciples different from those that guided Laennec; 2°. the history of the first stage of phthisis pulmonalis considered under various points of view: the causes capable of producing it and favouring its developement, its curability in its first and last stages, the diag- nostic signs of its first degree, and the treatment, as well prophy- lactic as curative, suited to it. If a new direction had not presented itself for my researches, if I had not perceived the possibility of considering these subjects under other points of view than those of the great masters who had gone before me, I would not have ventured upon any attempt after them; still less would I have hoped, after the beautiful works they have left, to arrive by my own investigations at new results which, per- haps, will not be deemed altogether undeserving attention. Should it be so, should any merit belong to a work which has at least that of being conscientious, the greater part of it is due to M. Andral, since it is to his good opinion, to his generous kindness, I am indebted for the favourable position I occupied for making these researches. I have divided this work into two parts : the first contains my researches on auscultation, the second my researches on phthisis. 1°. The analysis of the two murmurs of respiration (inspiratory murmur, expiratory murmur), instead of the single murmur described by Laennec, has multiplied the number of signs by means of which we recognize the diseases of the respiratory organs, and has dissipated some errors which followed necessarily from tho consideration of a single murmur instead of the two that really