Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 24. education in the art of percussion requires a certain dexterity, whichsome find it very difficult to obtain. The difficulty seems to depend, in * Beales Archives of Medicine, vol. i. p. 60. Fig. 23. Ptetho-goniometer, for measuring the inclination of different parts of thewalls of the thorax in cases of disease, aa, The arms; b, the arc of a circle graduated;v, the vernier, with an arrow, also graduated; d, vernier arm ; e, joint.—(Scott Alison.) BY PERCUSSION. 49. some eases, on an alteration in the proportions usually ex
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 24. education in the art of percussion requires a certain dexterity, whichsome find it very difficult to obtain. The difficulty seems to depend, in * Beales Archives of Medicine, vol. i. p. 60. Fig. 23. Ptetho-goniometer, for measuring the inclination of different parts of thewalls of the thorax in cases of disease, aa, The arms; b, the arc of a circle graduated;v, the vernier, with an arrow, also graduated; d, vernier arm ; e, joint.—(Scott Alison.) BY PERCUSSION. 49. some eases, on an alteration in the proportions usually existing betweenthe length of the fingers. Thus, I have seen more than one person who had the index finger nearly aninch shorter than the middleODe, and who, consequently,found it impossible to strikethe pleximeter fairly with thetips of the two fingers at far the most common cause of failure, however, iswant of patience and perseverance in overcoming thefirst mechanical difficulties; and there is every rea-son to believe that could this be surmounted, accu-rate percussion would become more universal andbetter appreciated. Without entering into the nu-merous discussions which have arisen as to the supe-rior advantages of one plan as compared with another,.or of using this or that instrument, I may mention,,that for the last twenty-three years I have employeda pleximeter and a hammer. These instruments Ican confidently recommend to you as the readiestmeans of obtaining accurate results at the bed-sideby means of percussion
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