Phthisis and the stethoscope, or, the physical signs of consumption / by Richard Payne Cotton.

  • Richard Payne Cotton
Date:
1859
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Credit: Phthisis and the stethoscope, or, the physical signs of consumption / by Richard Payne Cotton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE PHYSICAL SIGNS CONSUMPTION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Connexion of physical signs with general symptoms— Relation of the thoracic and general conformation to the development of consumption. The separation of the physical signs from the general symptoms of phthisis, must be regarded only as a convenient mode of studying either the one or the other. In practice, the two are inseparable; and any diagnosis which is not based upon a careful consideration of both, is likely to prove fallacious. Auscultation is, in fact, merely the application of another sense to the practical investigation of disease. Phthisis is as much a general as a local—a constitutional as a pulmonary affection. At its B