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

  • Gee, Samuel (Samuel Jones), 1839-1911.
Date:
1870
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    INFLAMMATION OF THE MEDIASTINUM. HERE are different kinds of inflammation of the mediastinum : to wit : i. Acute dropsy of the mediastinum. The connective tissue in all parts of the body is liable to acute serous fluxions, which are idio- pathic in the sense of inexplicable. Spontaneous serous fluxion upon the mediastinum is a rare disease. Hamburger has narrated a case which probably was of this kind.' In this patient the posterior mediastinum chiefly was affected. There were present all the symptoms of acute obstruction to the vena cava superioi*. The heart was pushed forward, and beat strongly against the chest wall. The percussion signs were natiiral. When the patient swallowed some water, and, at the same time, the ear was applied to his'back on the left side of the third ' Die Auscultation des (Esophagus. Vierteljahrschrift: Bd. i. Prag, 1870. Hamburger refers to a case described by Rayex'.