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

  • Richard Payne Cotton
Date:
1864
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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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    The nomenclature of the various rhonclii or rales is, unhappily, full of perplexity. The word rhonchus is by some employed to designate only dry sounds,—and such an application cer- tainly has a classical sanction ; but, it is more generally used synonymously with rale or rattle, to signify any morbid sound proceed- ing either from the air passages or pulmonary cells, whether it be of dry or moist quality; and in this sense I prefer to employ it. Sonor- ous, sibilant, crepitant, sid>Grepitant, dry and humid cracMing, mucous, and cavernous rhon- chi, constitute the list I have adopted, not, how- ever, because all the names are unobjectionable, but because they are simple and sufficiently ex- pressive. The terms sonorous, sibilant, and crepitant, are in too general use to need comment; but not so some of the others. The term subcrepi- tant is certainly not free from objection, and is apt to lead to some confusion; my colleague, Dr. S. Scott Alison, very justly remarking in reference to this rhonchus, that it is not an under or smaller sound,* as the prefix sid} * Physical Examination of the Chest in Pulmonary Consumption, p. 148.
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