Auscultation and percussion : together with the other methods of physical examination of the chest.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1877
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    Eickets is a disease of infancy, and infants cannot but have a respiration chiefly abdomi- nal, because of the circular shape of their thorax, which does not admit of further lateral expan- sion. When the diaphragm descends, and rarefies the air contained in the lungs, the rickety ribs, not being able to hold out until the chest is completely distended by fresh air passing in through the glottis, yield in their softest parts to the atmospheric pressm*e from without, and arc bent inwards. Inasmuch as the softest parts Fig. 5. Cil'ciimference — 42'5 ceutuneters. EicKETY Chest. Dotted line indicates sliape of chest iu an infant of aljout the same age. of the ribs are at and near their costochondral articulations, a shallow longitudinal groove is formed on each side of th.e chest, parallel and
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