. A manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism . fice for the study and in ordinary prac-tice. Instruments are preferable only when it is desiredto produce sounds to be heard at a distance, as in classillustrations, and when, from the number of patients tobe percussed, as in dispensary or hospital practice, thefrequent repetition of the blows renders the fingers tenderand painful. The instruments are a pleximeter and apercussor. A simple and convenient pleximeter is anoval disk of ivory or hard India-rub
. A manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism . fice for the study and in ordinary prac-tice. Instruments are preferable only when it is desiredto produce sounds to be heard at a distance, as in classillustrations, and when, from the number of patients tobe percussed, as in dispensary or hospital practice, thefrequent repetition of the blows renders the fingers tenderand painful. The instruments are a pleximeter and apercussor. A simple and convenient pleximeter is anoval disk of ivory or hard India-rubber, with projectinghandles or auricles sufficiently large and roughened ontheir outer aspect so as to be conveniently held by thefingers. The author has lately used with satisfaction apleximeter consisting of a piece of hard rubber bent up-ward at one extremity, and ending in a handle. () The best percussor is a double cone of caoutchouc 44 PERCUSSION IN HEALTH. encircled at its centre with a handle of convenient lengthand size, the ring and the handle made of vulcanizedrubber. The instrument is very durable. (Fig. 7.) Fig. Rubber Pleximeter. When percussion is performed with the fingers, thepalmar surface of one or more of those of the left hand Fig. 6.
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