Compendium of percussion & auscultation : and of the physical diagnosis of diseases affecting the lungs and heart / by Austin Flint.
- Austin Flint I
- Date:
- 1872
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Compendium of percussion & auscultation : and of the physical diagnosis of diseases affecting the lungs and heart / by Austin Flint. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![times projecting, and the intercostal depressions pushed out; the impulse of the heart lost, or, if appreciable, raised to the fourth or third inter- costal space; the heart-sounds weakened and distant; the first sound short and valvular ]ike the second sound. In chronic pericarditis, with large effusion, the dilatation of the pericardiai sac is shown by dill- ness' or flatness extending laterally, more or less, from the prsecordia, on both sides of the chest, together with the other signs just mentioned. Hypertrophy of Heart or Enlargement -with Predominant Hypertrophy.—The apex- beat lowered from the fifth intercostal space to the sixth, seventh, or eighth, according to the amount of enlargement, and often removed to the left of its normal situation one, two, or three inches. The apex-beat in some cases notably strong, but in other cases weak, in consequence of the change in form of the heart. Impulses in the intercostal spaces above the apex-beat, and these notably strong. Heaving movement of the whole of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21052359_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
