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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    rived from an experience of more than fifteen years, especially devoted to the practical study of diseases of the chest; during the whole of which I have neglected scarcely a single opportunity of examining the signs of disease in the living, or the products of disease in the dead subject; and during nearly the whole of which I have possessed the advantages afforded by one of the largest hospitals in the British dominions. With the exception of the article by Dr. Forbes, referred to in the body of the work, I have not made a single extract from any author; to that article I have referred simply for the purpose of examining, and partially copying, the author's regional divisions of the chest. Though, therefore, the statements herein contained may have been repeatedly made, and the opinions herein delivered may have been again and again expressed by others ; and though I may have seen them recorded by one or a dozen writers; yet, unless it be so acknowledged in reference to any particular fact or opinion, I believe I may with confidence assert, that I have given no directions, of which 1 have not by long practice proved the utility, and that I have made no statements, which, from whomsoever thev