New and complete manual of auscultation and percussion, applied to the diagnosis of disease / by M.A. Raciborski. Translated by William Fitzherbert.

  • Raciborski, A. (Adam), 1809-1871.
Date:
1835
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Credit: New and complete manual of auscultation and percussion, applied to the diagnosis of disease / by M.A. Raciborski. Translated by William Fitzherbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in view to put the key of the hospitals into the hands of the numerous students, to whom the clinical visits are fit only to inspire disgust and discouragement when they are unable to procure the preliminary notions, capable of rendering intelligible and interesting the diseases which present themselves to their view. On the other hand, the experience of the senses and the application of the intelligence to the interpretation of the phenomena of auscultation, contain nothing strange to any student; and this exercise, serving as a transition from what is known to what is unknown, will habituate students to the observation of diseases, and make them adopt the usage of rigorous methods, by the aid of which they will have been initiated into all that we know, that is most positive and most useful, about diseases of the heart, the lungs, and the abdomen. I ought publicly to testify my acknowledgment to Professor Bouillaud, whose wards, always rich in inter- esting cases, offered me a vast mine to explore; and if my work be of any service to the science and students, it is to this celebrated professor that we should be obliged. We seize, also, with pleasure, this opportunity of thanking our excellent friend M. Jules Pelletan, Chef de Clinique, for the kindness with which he facilitated the means of giving our lectures at the Hopital de la Charite. Raciborski, D.M.P.