Pulmonary consumption, pneumonia, and allied diseases of the lungs : their etiology, pathology and treatment, with a chapter on physical diagnosis / by Thomas J. Mays.

Thomas Jefferson Mays

Date:: 1901

Credit: Pulmonary consumption, pneumonia, and allied diseases of the lungs : their etiology, pathology and treatment, with a chapter on physical diagnosis / by Thomas J. Mays. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$A TABULAR VIEW OF WHAT IS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE SOUNDS WHICH ARE HEARD IN THE LUNGS, AND OF THE DISEASES WHICH THEY INDICATE. I. VOICE SOUNDS. CONDITIONS INDICATED. 1. Increased vocal resonance... i ( 2. Bronchophony V J Condensation of lung tissue. 3. Whispering bronchophony . . ) ( 4. Whispering pectoriloquy Excavation. 5. Diminished or suppressed vo- ) ( Plugging, or compression ot cal resonance..,:. M b^°°?l^«l ^ube, or pleural ) ( effusion. 2. BREATHING SOUNDS. CONDITIONS INDICATED. 1. Puerile breathing Compensatory in adults. 2. Roughened breathing Bronchitis. 3. Prolonged expiration ( I Various degrees of lung con- 4. Bronchial respiration j ( densation. 5. Cavity respiration | i „ 6. Amphoric respiration [ ] Excavation. i ( Intercostal neuralgia. 7. Wavy respiration V \ Nervous breathing. ) ( Phthisis. 3. BALES. CONDITIONS INDICATED. r Affections of the bronchial tubes —bronchitis, asthma, etc. Large mucous r&les ] Small mucous rales Subcrepitant rales Sibilant rales Sonorous rales Crepitant rales. J' Condensation of lung tissue— pneumonia. Clicking sound Incipient phthisis. Metallic tinkling ) I ^ Cardiac metallic tinkling \\ Excavation. Friction sounds Pleurisy. Succussion Hydro- or pyopneumothorax. Method of Recording Pul.monary Diseases. For the purpose of making an intelligent and profitable study of diseases of the lungs it is absolutely indispensable that every case that comes under observation shouid not only be thoroughly investigated and studied, but that all the data pertaining to it should be methodically recorded in a case-book, and in the following order:$