This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... restricted to one side of the chest, they indicate tubercle. Persistent coarseness of breathing, with small bubbling rales and sonorous sibilant rhonchi--signs of Bronchitis--earliest marked in the supra-scapular, and supra-and infra-clavicular regions, inaudible below the second intercostal space, and limited to one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... restricted to one side of the chest, they indicate tubercle. Persistent coarseness of breathing, with small bubbling rales and sonorous sibilant rhonchi--signs of Bronchitis--earliest marked in the supra-scapular, and supra-and infra-clavicular regions, inaudible below the second intercostal space, and limited to one lung, certainly justifies the suspicion of Consumption. Although the investigation of internal disease by the sense of hearing is based upon an extremely simple theory, and affords decisive means for detecting disease, the acquisition of the art is by no means equally easy; indeed, much skill and practice, both in healthy and diseased persons, is necessary to arrive at truthful conclusions. stethoscopy. The stethoscope is simply an instrument for conducting the sounds of the chest to the ear of the physician, and is chiefly used to avoid the necessity of placing the ear directly upon the chest of the patient, and when the sounds to be listened to are limited to a small and definite region. Frequently, however, the best way to hear the sounds within the chest is to apply the ear in immediate contact with it; but when it is desirable to localize the sounds the stethoscope may be used. Thermometry. We must not omit to notice the aid which the therm ometer affords. The proper application of the clinical thermometer yields most valuable diagnostic information when the ordinary symptoms and signs are ill-defined, or when their true cause may be doubtful; especially in the early stages, when treatment is likely to be most effective. The importance of the aid of the thermometer in this case will be recognised by the fact that, during the deposit of tubercle in the lungs, the temperature of the patient is heightened from 98 Fahr., the normal temperatur...
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