A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec].

  • James Birch Sharpe
Date:
1832
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Credit: A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    itself for their natural sound. It is, however, more common to hearit during the contraction ot the ventricles only; very often it exists merely in one ventricle. It is rarely constant. It ceases and reappears abruptly, and often with- out any other apparent cause than a slight moral emotion. 224. The bellows sound often accompanies arterial action, and then it is sometimes sibil- ous, and even musical. It has been heard in almost all the arteries; and principally in the carotids, the subclavians, in the abdominal aorta, and in the crural and brachial arteries. It is not often that the arteries give out the bellows sound without the heart producing it also: but, on the contrary, this sound often exists in the heart in a high degree without the least semblance of it in the arteries. 225. The bellows sound very often exists in hearts affected with dilatation and hyper- trophy; and as frequently in the case of a nar- rowing of the orifices of this organ: but it is yet more frequently found in the hearts of the most perfectly healthy. The same may be said but of the existence of this sound in the arteries :
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