. A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart : including the principles of physical diagnosis . PHILADELPHIA: BLANCHARD AND LEA, 1851. WM. 5. YOUJJG, PRIHTEX. V 0 TO JOHN FORBES, , , AND NEIL ARNOT, , F. R. S., IN ADMIRATION OF THEIR EMINENT PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER, AND IN GRATITUDE FOR FRIENDSHIP AS DISINTERESTEDAS UNCHANGING. PREFACE. In the first of the two parts into which this workis divided, an attempt is made to describe the factsand principles of Physical Diagnosis in their applica-tions to the lungs, heart, and great vessels. Althoughin the main confining
. A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart : including the principles of physical diagnosis . PHILADELPHIA: BLANCHARD AND LEA, 1851. WM. 5. YOUJJG, PRIHTEX. V 0 TO JOHN FORBES, , , AND NEIL ARNOT, , F. R. S., IN ADMIRATION OF THEIR EMINENT PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER, AND IN GRATITUDE FOR FRIENDSHIP AS DISINTERESTEDAS UNCHANGING. PREFACE. In the first of the two parts into which this workis divided, an attempt is made to describe the factsand principles of Physical Diagnosis in their applica-tions to the lungs, heart, and great vessels. Althoughin the main confining himself to a description of phy-sical signs, the author has occasionally stepped asideto consider the mechanism,—yet not without the fullconsciousness, that in the present state of thoracicacoustics, (and, indeed, of acoustics in general,) allefforts of the kind must be merely tentative. If, onthe one hand, the theories of the immortal discovererof auscultation do not, in all instances, bear the testof clinical scrutiny, those of his German critics seemneither to be always in harmony with the
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