The pathology and diagnosis of diseases of the chest : comprising a rational exposition of their physical signs. With an appendix, containing various opinions and experiments on the motions and sounds of the heart, and on the bronchi / by Charles J. B. Williams, M.D. F.R.S.

  • Williams, Charles J. B. (Charles James Blasius), 1805-1889.
Date:
1840
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Credit: The pathology and diagnosis of diseases of the chest : comprising a rational exposition of their physical signs. With an appendix, containing various opinions and experiments on the motions and sounds of the heart, and on the bronchi / by Charles J. B. Williams, M.D. F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the heart and fatty disease, 278. Ossification, rupture, malig- nant disease, polypous concretions, 279. Malformations, 280, 281. CHAPTER V. Diseases of the Great Vessels, 282—288. Aortic pulsation, aortitis, 282, Dilatation of the aorta, 283—285. Aneurism of the great arteries, 285—288. Table I.—Plate II.— Tabular view of the regions of the chest in relation to the signs of A uscultation, Sfc, 288, 289, Table II.— Tabular view of the most characteristic signs of t/ie principal diseases of the Lungs and Pleura, 290, 291. Table III.— View of the relative periods and durations of the natural and morbid sounds of the Heart and Blood-vessels, 292. Table IV.— Tabular view of the most characteristic signs of Diseases of the Heart, 293. Appendix, 294. I. An inquiry respecting the motions and sounds of the Heart 294—300 ; Experiments by the author, 300—308 ; Au- thor's claim to the experiments, 308—310. II. Extract from the First Report of the London Committee of the British Association on the motions and sounds of the Heart, (1836,) 310, 311. III. Second Report of the London Committee of the British Association on the motions and sounds of the Heart, (1837,) 311—319. Experiments on the production of sound by the motion of liquids through a tube, 313 ; Experiments on the production of murmurs in the living body, 316. IV. Report of expei-iments on the contractility and sensibility of the Lungs and Air-tubes, read at the meeting of the Hritish Association m 1840. Experiments to detect and measure the contractility, 320 ; On the sensibility, 323 ; Experiments on the in- fluence of medicines on the contractions of the air- tubes, 326—330.