A manual of auscultation and percussion - embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism (1890) (14748163536)

Identifier: manualofausculta1890flin (find matches)
Title: A manual of auscultation and percussion : embracing the physical diagnosis of diseases of the lungs and heart, and of thoracic aneurism
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Flint, Austin, 1812-1886 Wilson, J. C. (James Cornelius), 1847-1934
Subjects: Percussion Auscultation Percussion Auscultation
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea Brothers & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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spar-agement to physical diagnosis that its reliability dependson other facts than those which belong exclusively to it.To repeat a statement already made more than once,the significance of the signs, as regards the conditionswhich they severally represent, is based on the constancyof their association with the latter, our knowledge ofthis association being derived from examinations duringlife and after death. Regional Divisions of the Chest. Before entering on the study of physical exploration,the student should become acquainted with the divisionsof the surfaces of the anterior, posterior, and lateralaspects of the chest into circumscribed spaces which arecalled regions. These divisions, deriving their bound-aries and names from their anatomical relations, aresufficiently simple. Anteriorly the chest is divided into regions as follows:The supra- or post-clavicular region extends from theclavicle upward a short distance, corresponding to the REGIONAL DIVISIONS OF THE CHEST. 35 Fig.1.
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The horizontal lines indicate the boundaries of the regional divisionson the anterior aspect of the chest. The vertical line is the linea mam-illaris. The oblique dotted lines indicate the interlobar fissures. ab, ac, cd, and bd, boundaries of superficial cardiac space, ik, outerboundary of deep cardiac space; ce, lower boundary of right lung; df,lower boundary of left lung; gh, upper boundary of right and left lung;Im, lower boundary of hepatic flatness; pq, upper boundary of hepaticdulness; no, lower boundary of the stomach moderately distended. 36 INTRODUCTION variable height to which the lung rises above this bone.The clavicular region embraces the space occupied by Fig. 2.