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

  • Sharpe, James Birch
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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    ear, a gurgling like the mucous rattle will be heard ; this often takes place in cor}^za. 296. It is obvious, therefore, that the perme- ability, or the obliteration, of the eustachian tube, is a matter of easy discovery by means of the ste- thoscope. So, likewise, the nature of any extraneous sub- stance introduced into the ear can be ascertained by the conjoined use of the sound or probe and stethoscope. Of the Use of the Stethoscope in Veterinary Suryery. 297. The great Laennec has written but a few sentences upon this subject, contenting himself with throwing out the suggestion to the practi- tioner in brute pathology. Nor was it necessary to write much, since all the principles and appli- cations of the stethoscope, already set forth in his work, must necessarily be the same for its uses in the brute animal as in the human being. The value of auscultation in Veterinary Surgery is now duly appreciated ; and Mr. Youatt, in his twenty-fifth lecture on A^eterinary Medicine, deli- vered in University College, London, has explained its advantages and demonstrated the best method of its application. In his twenty-seventh lecture