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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![thoscope, of the shock given by the sound (or probe) upon a bullet, ])oint of a sword, or splinter of a shell placed deeply near a bone or imbed- ded in its substance, would enable us to recog- nize tliese objects more easily than that conveyed to the hand by the probe or sound alone : and the same may be supposed of all similar cases, when the ear and hand only can be employed as the means of investigation. Upon the same principle that excavations of the lungs are deter- mined would probably fistulous and cavernous abscesses be ascertained ; as an injection thrown into them would give the cavernous gurgling or cavernous rattle. In Abscesses of the Liver. ‘itJO. These signs at present are merely con- jectural. it is considered that the stethoscope would recognize abscesses in the liver, and hyda- tids formed in tiiis organ, when about to open into the stomach or intestines, or even into the lungs, as sometimes has been observed. 291. In the two former cases, on pressing the abdomen in the hypochondriac region, it is jJro- bable that a gurgling would become manifest, arising from the introduction of intestinal gas into the emptied cavity of the liver. 6-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029072_0143.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
