A manual of auscultation and percussion / by M. Barth and Henri Roger.
- Jean Baptiste Barth
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of auscultation and percussion / by M. Barth and Henri Roger. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![with the existence of hydatids, and depends on the oscillation of these vesicles in the sac which contains them. This shuddering does not take place in all hydatid tumors, there- fore its absence will not prove that a spheroid tumor of the region of the liver is not an acephalocystic cyst; but its presence consti- tutes a pathognomonic symptom of this kind of disease. Sec. I1].—Percussion oF tHE Had, THE NECK, THE SPINE, AND THE MEMBERS. Among the facts of pleximetry can we place the pretended sound of a broken vessel, that the cranium is said to yield on percussion, in cases of fracture; the particular sound that is given by a carious tooth when struck by a stylet; the dulness with fluctuation that is found on articulations which are the seat of hydrarthrus; &c.? Percussion may have applications more real and more useful in cases of fistulous abscess, containing gases or air; at times also it will be of use in the differential diagnosis of anasarca, and of emphysema of the cellular tissue, in displaying in the first disease a note-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33778991_0156.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
