A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation : and other modes of physical diagnosis: intended to simplify the study of the diseases of the lungs and heart / by H.M. Hughes.

  • Hughes, Henry Marshall, 1805-1858.
Date:
1846
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Credit: A clinical introduction to the practice of auscultation : and other modes of physical diagnosis: intended to simplify the study of the diseases of the lungs and heart / by H.M. Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    examination, and of distinguishing the more common physical signs. With terms they may be sufficiently famihar; the theory of morbid sounds may be not unknown to them ; but how they are to ehcit some of these sounds, and how they are to distinguish others, they know not. They cannot, in fact, practise auscultation and percussion ; and they are unacquainted with the mode of setting about it. How, then, is this knowledge to be attained ? Clearly by clinical instruction, most efficiently; by the precepts delivered and the illustrations offered at the bed- side. But it unfortunately happens, that com- paratively few students attend to these instruc- tions, whether of precept or example, and that numbers find out their deficiencies only when it is too late for them to devote their attention to this infinitely most desirable mode of supplying them. It has, then, appeared to myself as well as to others, that a work was wanted, in which should be simply explained to the student of auscul- tation, not merely the origin, character, and diagnostic value of certain physical signs, but also the manner in which he should proceed to elicit them ; and which should direct him how to