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Auscultation is several times mentioned and described by the
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Auscultation of the lungs is of great value in diagnosing and watching the progress of the disease.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Auscultation cannot well be made available with them.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Title-page of Laennec's Treatise on Mediate Auscultation (1819).
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Auscultation and percussion came into general use in the Germanic countries much later than in England and France but they were then brought to great perfection by the Vienna physician Joseph Skoda (1805-81), who in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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_Auscultation_ while the patient is drinking sometimes aids in the diagnosis of stricture; the stethoscope is placed at various points along the left side of the dorsal spine, and abnormal sounds may be heard as the fluid impinges against the stricture or trickles through it.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Auscultation reveals a bubbling, gurgling sound, as the air passes through the matter in the bronchi, with the click, to the air cells beyond.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Auscultation, as practiced in detecting disease, consists in listening to the sounds which can be heard in the chest.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Auscultation consists in the examination of the lungs with the ear applied closely to the chest wall.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_Auscultation and Percussion_ constitute valuable means of diagnosis from the time tubercular matter begins to be deposited to the very last, and, when correctly practiced, reveal the extent and progress of the disease.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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