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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...over a solid viscus, while percussion strokes are made over the Fig. 55.--Cammann'sCylindricalAuscultator. Fig. 56.--Cammann'sIntraCostal Solid Cedar. Auscultator. organ, but more especially across the organ in the line of its various axes--vertical, horizontal, and oblique. The moment the border of the organ is reached, immediate cognizance of the fact is taken by the listener, owing to the direct conduction of the sound by the organ. By percussing towards the organ from various sides, and marking the points of approach, we may map out with great exactitude the contour of the organ, and determine its precise size and shape. While as a process it is most useful for defining the size and shape of the liver, spleen, and heart, yet it is also applicable to examination of the lungs, in determining the line of demarcation between lung and liver, lung and spleen, lung and heart, and the extent of pleuritic effusions downward, the extent of pneumonic consolidations, and the size and locations of neoplasms within the thorax or encroaching upon it from the abdominal cavity. Auscultatory percussion, to be well performed, requires: 1st. That the stethoscope be held firmly down upon the integument over the organ. 2d. That the percussion be deep, that is, the interposed finger be firmly pressed down upon the area percussed, and the blow delivered with firmness and force. Cammann employed for this purpose the solid cylindrical stethoscope (Fig. 55) to obviate the transmission of the percussion note by the ribs; he further devised the " Intra-Costal Auscultator," a wedge-shaped stethoscope, capable of being pressed down in the intercostal spaces upon the organ, and avoiding deceptive transmission of sound by the ribs. Such a wedge-shaped tube...