The physical examination of the chest in pulmonary consumption and its intercurrent diseases / by Somerville Scott Alison.

  • Alison, S. Scott (Somerville Scott), 1813-1877.
Date:
1861
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Credit: The physical examination of the chest in pulmonary consumption and its intercurrent diseases / by Somerville Scott Alison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The chief object of the Author in the following work has been to give a detailed account of the leading physical signs of the chest, &c. in pulmonary consump- tion. It has appeared to him that it would be to add to the means of the diagnosis of this important disease to describe them at greater length than has yet been done. Some of the signs have been treated more largely than before; some have been described, it is believed, for the first time : as a whole, they have been- comprehensively dealt with: their mechanism has been regarded, and the phenomena of physical science have been freely adduced to serve in their illustration. The most important signs, in a practical point of view, have been particularly regarded ; but no ascer- tained sign of pulmonary consumption has been alto- gether omitted, for the Author, he believes justly, has felt that the movements, and the form, and the sounds of the human chest in disease, illustrating and depend- ing upon physical laws, not less than the movements, the form, and sounds of other things in nature, must be full of interest to the physician, — the enlightened physician of these days, — even when leading to no immediate and obvious practical advantage.