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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Sect. In softened tubercles 16f) In excavation of the lungs 170 In cysts and vesicular worms 171 In melanosis and medullary tumours 172 In neuralgia of the lungs; in nervous dyspnoea; in asthma with puerile respiration 174 In pleurisy 175 In chronic pleurisy 185 In partial and circumscribed pleurisy 18fi In pleuro-pneumonia 187 In dropsy of the pleura 190 In effusions of blood 191 In pneumato-thorax* 192 In accidental productions of tlie pleura 199 * This word ^meMwiafo-thorax is in Laeunec’s works writtenpnewmo-thorax; but the writer, for the sake of using a more correct orthography, has changed its form. “ Such compound words are formed from the genitive or dative of the first, the final being usually made o, with the nomi- native of the second noun. Thus we say pneumatology, pneumatomphalos, and pneumatocele, and should also say pneumato-thorax,as pneumamakes pneumatos.pneumati.” See Dr. Elliotson’s paper on Creosote, in the Royal Med. Chir. Trans, vol. xix. p. 226, and his Physiology, p. 323. From neglect of the rules in coining such words, the student is perplexed on finding pnewmo-gastric intended to mean /xng'-stomach; and pneumo-thorax to mean air in thorax.