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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    chiae; or, lastly, that the disease is not phthisis/’ In cases of pleurisy, when there is se- rous effusion between the layers of the pleura, the voice affects the stethoscope so as to produce that peculiar phenomenon of bleating sound, to which the term cegopho- nism^ or caprine pectoriloquism^ is given ; from the supposed resemblance to the voice of a goat. M. Laennec considers that the natural resonance of the voice in the bron- chial tubes is rendered more distinct by the compression of the pulmonary tissue, and by its transmission through the medium of a thin layer of fluid.” I have traced, in a case of pleurisy, the daily diminution of this phenomenon, in proportion as the absorption has taken place, and the healthy condition of the pleural membrane has returned.