Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion, and upon some points of the French practice of medicine / by Charles Scudamore.

  • Scudamore, Charles, 1779-1849.
Date:
1826
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    11 and the expected evidence of disease did not appear. M. Laennec, making a closer inspection^ discovered that a small part of the upper lobe had been left in the chest, and upon its removal, the ulceration was found exactly as he had predicted. Some persons assert, that the discovery of the precise situation of an ulceration of the lung is merely a matter of curiosity, as^ when arising from tubercles, they consider it incurable; but surely this is not a good me- ^ dical objection. Our art< may improve'so i as to enable us to remedy these evils; and assuredly our chance of success will be in- creased by a knowledge of the seat of tubercles, their commencement, and their progress. While those persons therefore who have made use of the stethoscope with_ success, praise it in terms which may^ seem romantic and beyond the truth; others, and perhaps those chiefly who have never even