On the relation of the chest-movements to prognosis in lung-disease : and on the application of stethometry to examinations for life assurance / by Arthur Ransome.

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1882
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    INDEX. A. Abscess under clavicle, loss of move- ment from, 34 Action, individual, of ribs, 64 Andrei on, 65 Hutchinson on, 65 Acute phthisis, cases of, 42 et seq. chest movements in, 82, 85 Acute tuberculosis, prognosis in, 37 supervention of, 61 Adhesions, affecting forward move- ments, 5 affecting upward movements in pleurisy, 35 affecting upward movements in phthisis, 50 pleuritic, in phthisis, 5° pleuritic, detected by stethometer, 93 Age, influence of, on chest move- ments, 13, 59, 61 Albuminuria., in phthisis, 2, 61 Aneurism under clavicle, compensating movements in, 77 Andral, on individual action of ribs, 65 Asthma, prognosis in, 24—26 Automatic restraint of chest move- ments, 5, 64 Average readings of stethometer in acute and chronic cases of phthisis, 56—70 forward, 56 upward, 57 over the site of a vomica, 69, 70 greatest in females, 57, 58 B. Back, support of the, in stethometry, 9 Bronchitis, chronic, chest movements in, 23 prognosis in, 24—26 C. Cancer, compensatory movements of ribs in, 77 Cases of acute phthisis, tables of (males), 82 (females), 84 chronic phthisis, tables of (males), 81 (females), 83 asthma and chronic bronchitis, 25 emphysema, 21 clinical reports of phthisis, 42—48 pleurisy, 28—33 pneumothorax, 34 Chest movements in health, at different ages, 13 table (I) of, 12 in chronic bronchitis, 23 table (III) of, 25 in acute cases of phthisis, table (VII), males, 82 table (IX), females, 84 in chronic cases of phthisis, table (VI), males, 81 table (VIII), females, 83 in exceptional cases of phthisis, 85 in emphysema, 20 table (II) of, 21 after pleurisy, 30 tables (IV, V) of, 28, 29 in pneumothorax, 34 over site of vomica, 69 Chronic cases of phthisis, reasons for large proportion of, 51 greater forward movements in, 56, 57, 69 Clavicles, movements of, 67 Clinical study of phthisis, 42 Clubbed fingers in phthisis, 2 Complications, in phthisis, 2 bearing of, upon prognosis, 2 Compensatory movements of ribs in phthisis, 72 in pleurisy, 33 in pneumothorax, 34 in other diseases, 34, 72, 77 H