A manual of auscultation and percussion / Principally composed from M. Laennec's edition of Laennec's great work.

  • James Birch Sharpe
Date:
1839
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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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    292. In the latter case, that is, of fistulous com- munication between the abscess of the liver and the bronchiee, there is no doubt that cavernous cough and respiration, and cavernous rattle, also would be perceived, as well probably as the transmission of the voice through the stethoscope : and, if the excavation should be very great, the metalic tinkling would be manifest. In Diseases of the Ear. 293. The stethoscope should be funiished with an obturator of smaller dimensions at its excavated end for the purpose of the auscultation of the ear and parts adjacent. 294. The stethoscope applied upon a mastoid process, and also upon the other cavities of the face, will render the circulation of the air in these cavities perfectly audible ; and the voice also will be heard to resound through them. The sound in these parts is called rhinophomj. 295. If the nostril on one side is closed by a finger, v.drllst the patient blows through the other nostril with some force, the rushing of the air into the chamber of the tympanum will be very evident on applying the stethoscope to the mas- toid process on the opposite side. If any mucus should exist in the custachian tube, or in the
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