This medical textbook provides a detailed overview of the practice of percussion and auscultation, two important diagnostic techniques used by doctors to evaluate the health of their patients. Written in the mid-19th century by Austin Flint, a prominent physician and educator, the book includes numerous examples and illustrations to help readers understand these complex topics. While some of the information contained in the book may be outdated, it remains a valuable historical document and a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of medical science. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from A Manual of Percussion and Auscultation, of the Physical Diagnosis of Diseases of the Lungs and Heart, and of Thoracic Aneurism The sounds in auscultation and percussion are (1) normal or healthy sounds, being produced when there is no disease Of the chest; and (2) abnormal or morbid Sounds, being produced when the chest is the seat of disease. The sounds, healthy and morbid, constitute what are known as physical signs. Frequently, for the sake of brevity, the term signs, without the word physical, is used to denote these sounds. Conven tionally, physical signs, or signs, are terms employed in a sense of contradistinction to the term symptoms. The signs are distinguished, of course, as normal or healthy, and abnormal or morbid. The sounds which constitute signs represent certain physical conditions pertaining to the chest. The normal or healthy signs represent physical conditions existing when the organs are not affected by disease; the abnormal or morbid signs represent physical conditions which are deviations from those of health, being incident to the various diseases of the chest. The physical conditions represented by Signs may be distinguished as normal or healthy, and abnormal or morbid conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.