Manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism.

  • Flint, Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PACE persons—Relation of the pitch of resonance to the vesicular quality—Tympanitic resonance over the abdomen—Variations of the normal resonance in the diflferent regions of the chest —Enumeration of the regions in which the resonance on the two sides varies, and those in which it is identical in health —Influence of age on the normal resonance—Influence of the acts of respiration on the resonance—Eules in the practice of percussion, 38 CHAPTER III. PERCUSSIOX IN DISEASE. Enumeration of the signs of disease furnished by percussion—Re- quirements for practical knowledge of these signs—The dis- tinctive characters of, the morbid physical conditions repre- sented by, and the difierent diseases into the diagnosis of which enter, these signs, severally, to wit, 1. Absence of resonance or flatness ; 2. Diminished resonance or dulness ; 3. Tympanitic resonance; 4. Vesiculo-tympanitic resonance; 5. Amphoric re- sonance; 6. Cracked-metal resonance—Sense of resistance felt in the practice of percussion, as a morbid sign, .... 54 CHAPTEE IV. AUSCULTATION IN HEALTH. Importance of the study of the auscultatory sounds in health— Immediate and mediate auscultation—Advantages of the bin- aural stethoscope—Rules to be observed in auscultation—Di- visions of the study of auscultation in health—The normal laryngeal and tracheal respiration—The normal vesicular mur- mur ; its distinctive characters, and the variations in the differ- ent regions on the same side, and in corresponding regions on the two sides of the chest—The normal vocal resonance—The laryngeal and tracheal voice and whisper—The normal thoracic vocal resonance and fremitus; the distinctive characters of each ; the variations in difierent regions on the same side, and in corresponding regions on the two sides of the chest—The normal bronchial whisper, with its variations in different re- gions on the same side, and in corresponding regions on the two sides of the chest, 65