A manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint, Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1885
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Credit: A manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism / by Austin Flint. 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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    PAGE persons—Relation of the pitch of resonance to the vesicular quality—Tympanitic resonance over the abdomen—Variations of the normal resonance in the different 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—In- fluence of age on the normal resonance—Influence of the acts of respiration on the resonance—Rules in the practice of per- cussion, ............ 11 CHAPTER III. PERCUSSION IN DISEASE. Enumeration of the signs of disease furnished by percussion— Requirements for a practical knowledge of these signs—The distinctive characters of the morbid physical conditions repre- sented by, and the different diseases into the diagnosis of which enter, the signs, severally, to wit, 1. Absence of resonance or flatness; 2. Diminished resonance; 3. Tympanitic resonance; 4. Vesiculotympanitic resonance; 5. Amphoric resonance: 6. Cracked-metal resonance—Sense of resistance felt in the practice of percussion, as a morbid sign, ....... 63 CHAPTER IV. AUSCULTATION IN HEALTH. Importance of the study of the auscultatory sounds in health—Im- mediate and mediate auscultation—Advantages of the binaural stethoscope—Rules to be observed in auscultation—Divisions of the study of auscultation in health—The normal laryngeal and tracheal respiration—The normal vesicular murmur; its distinc- tive characters, and the variations in the different regions on tlie 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 fre- mitus; the distinctive characters of each: the variations in dif- ferent 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 regions on the same side, and in corre- sponding regions on the two sides of the chest, .... 75