Auscultation and percussion : together with the other methods of physical examination of the chest / by Samual Gee.

  • Gee Samuel Jones, 1839-1911.
Date:
1907
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    By the name of souflBe voile, or veiled puff, Laennec^ designated a phtenomenon which it has puzzled his successors to identify. It is a modification of the pufF, he says, in which each vibration of voice, cough, or breathing seems to shake a sort of mobile veil placed between a lung cavity and the observer's ear. Skoda^ believed that Laennec referred to the condition of au inspiratory breathing sound, indistinct at its commencement, and suddenly becoming bron- chial. Skoda's veiled puff is not very un- common.^ ^ II.—PHYSICAL CONDITIONS OF EBSPIBATOIIY SOUNDS. The physical conditions of vocal resonance, as already set forth, and those of the breathing 1 Auscultation mediate, pp. 59, 213, 421, 423, 449. - Markham's translation, p. 99. 3 All reference to some terms in fi'equent use (s.uch as liarsh, coarse, rough) applied to breathing sound, has been eschewed, because their meaning is ill-defined and not correspondent with clear and distinct ideas. Even supposing that any such word denote a deiinite quality of sound, unless it signify some certain and constant con- dition of lung, to recognise the sound is useless. But when we read about la rudesse de I'inspiration, qui devient rapeuse, granuleuse, au lieu d'etre legere, moelleuse, et caressaute a I'oreille, we seem to have passed beyond common sense into mere fancy and fine writing. I 2