Physical diagnosis of diseases of the chest / by Richard C. Cabot.

  • Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Physical diagnosis of diseases of the chest / by Richard C. Cabot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tion or concentration upon those sounds which we know to be of importance. Among the sounds which we must learn to disregard are the following: (1) Noises produced in the room or its immediate neighborhood, but not connected with the patient himself. It is, of course, easier Fig. 58.—Bowies' Multiple Stethoscope in Use. Twelve students listening at once to listen in a perfectly quiet room where there are no external noises which need to be excluded from attention, but as the greater part of the student's work must be done in more or less noisy places, it is for the beginner a practial necessity to learn to with- draw his attention from the various sounds which reach his ear from the street, from other parts of the building, or from the room