Compendium of percussion & auscultation : and of the physical diagnosis of diseases affecting the lungs and heart / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint, Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Compendium of percussion & auscultation : and of the physical diagnosis of diseases affecting the lungs and heart / by Austin Flint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cavities, may be shown by cavernous respiration, amphoric respiration and voice, cracked metal or amphoric resonance on percussion, and gurgling. If the deposit be small or moderate, slight dulness on percussion at the summit on one side, or sometimes a vesiculotympanitic resonance due to emphysematous lobules in the neighbor- hood of the deposit, with diminished respiratory murmur, or a broncho-vesicular respiration, increase of vocal resonance, and exaggerated bronchial whisper. Accessory signs important in determining the existence of a deposit of tubercle, when the amount is small or moderate, are, mucous or subcrepitant rales, limited to the summit on one side ; a friction-murmur, crumpling or crackling- sounds, interrupted or jerking respiration, limit- ed in like manner; also, abnormal transmission of the heart-sounds, and a subclavian bellows murmur. Diaphragmatic Hernia.—Tympanitic reso-