Observations tending to elucidate the question, Is it possible to discover by anscultation which side of the heart is the diseased one, when hypertrophy or dilation, or both, exist on one side of the organ alone? / [Robert Spittal].

  • Spittal, Robert, 1804-1852.
Date:
1835?]
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Credit: Observations tending to elucidate the question, Is it possible to discover by anscultation which side of the heart is the diseased one, when hypertrophy or dilation, or both, exist on one side of the organ alone? / [Robert Spittal]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Observations tending to elucidate the question* Is it possible to discover by Auscultation which side of the Heart is the diseased one, when Hypertrophy or JOilata- tion, or both, o?2 one side of the organ alone ? By Robert Spittal, M. D., one of the Physicians to the Wes¬ tern General Dispensary, &c. (From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 118.) A uscuLTATioN, as a means of diagnosis in diseases of the heart, is surrounded by a degree of difficulty and uncertainty seldom to be encountered in the application of the same means in the diagnosis of other affections of the chest; and this in a great measure depends on the fact, that the physiological action of the organ still remains to a certain extent a matter of great doubt. These remarks apply with considerable force to the subject which we propose to consider in the following pages, viz. whether the signs perceived in the right and left precordial