A manual of auscultation and percussion / Principally composed from M. Laennec's edition of Laennec's great work.
- James Birch Sharpe
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of auscultation and percussion / Principally composed from M. Laennec's edition of Laennec's great work. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![286. When the urine is almost entirely evacu- ated, if no stone be in the bladder, a gurgling, analogous to the sound produced by rapidly urg- ing tbe saliva between the teeth when the month is closed, will be heard. 287. When the bladder is entirely empt3^ the motions of the catheter will be heard like the play of a force pump. This sound is without doubt owing to a certain cjuantity of air intro- duced by the catheter into the bladder. 288. A fungoid production has been mistaken for a calculus : but fungoid productions in the bladder render no other sounds by the stethoscope tlian those heard when the viscus is empty or con- tains but a small quantity of urine. In some other Cases. 289. There are a multitude of other cases in which our present methods of examination leave us in great uncertainty, but in which tlie stetho- scope, applied to the neighbouring parts, in con- junction with the sound or probe, would clear u]) all doubt: as in cases of the introduction of extra- neous bodies into the ear, the nasal fossae, the jdiarynx, the oesophagus, the rectum, and wounds, especially gunshot wounds. It is not doubted that the sensation, conveyed to the ear by the ste-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029072_0142.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
