A manual of auscultation and percussion : principally composed from Meriédec Laennec's edition of Laennec's great work / by James Birch Sharpe.

  • Sharpe, James Birch.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A manual of auscultation and percussion : principally composed from Meriédec Laennec's edition of Laennec's great work / by James Birch Sharpe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CHAPTER II. In Dilatation of the Bronchi.®. Sect. Pectoriloquy heard, where 125 Bronchial and cavernous rattle • 127 Veiled blowing 128 Pectoriloquy replaced by bronchophony 131 Signs in other affections. In croup 134 In bronchial haemorrhage 135 In polypi of the bronchiae 13G In ulceration of the bronchi®, &c 137 CHAPTER HI. In Affections of the Pulmonary Tissue. In emphysema of the lungs 138 In vesicular emphysema 139 In interlobular emphysema 142 In oedema of the lungs 144 In pulmonary apoplexy* 146 * Dr. Elliotson has forcibly pointed out the absurdity of this appellation. Apoplexy is a general loss of sense and mo- tion, with stertorous breathing, and is a disease of the ence- phalon. The lungs can be affected wnth apoplexy no more than with dyspepsia or amaurosis. But, because extreme congestion and effusion of blood within the head is a com-