Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine / by John Hughes Bennett.

  • Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine / by John Hughes Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. List of Illustrations . . • • Introduction The relation of the science to the art of medicine Mode of conducting the clinical course The political state of the medical profession . The social state of the medical profession The present state of practical medicine PAQK xvii 1 2 6 13 19 20 SECTION I. EXAMIXATION OF THE PATIENT Arrangement of symptoms, etc. Inspection of the dead body . Relative position of internal organs Inspection ...... Inspection of the general posture of the countenance of the chest of the abdomen Palpation ...... Increased or diminished sensibility of parts Altered form, size, density, and elasticity Alterations of movement Mensuration ..... Percussion ...... Of the different sounds produced by percussion Of the sense of resistance produced by percussion General rules to be followed in the practice of mediate percussion Special rules to be followed in percussing particular organs in percussing the lungs in percussing the heart , in percussing the liver in percussing the spleen in percussing the stomach and intestines in percussing the kidneys in percussing the bladder Auscultation ........ General rules to be followed in the practice of auscultation . Special rules to be followed during auscultation of the pulmonary organs . . . . . . . • Of the sounds produced by the puhnonary organs in health and in