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5 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252] · Instruments & Devices [E07]
1811 CE
#4676
A treatise on a malignant epidemic, commonly called spotted fever.
First book on cerebrospinal meningitis; in it North recommended the use of the clinical thermometer, not in general use until the time of Wunderlich. For more information on this book, see the article by F. L. Pleadwe…
1837 CE
#2213
A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest.
Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described b…
1839 CE
#2676
Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation.
Skoda classified the various sounds obtained on percussion according to their musical pitch and tone. “Skoda’s resonance” is an important diagnostic sign in pneumonia and pericardial effusion. Follow…
1819 CE
#2673
De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplif…
1826 CE
#14323
Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
Second edition, hugely revised, expanded, and improved. The pagination of the first edition (1819) was 456 pp. in vol. 1 and 472 pp. in vol. 2. The second edition was expanded to 728pp. in vol. 1 and 790 pp. in vol. 2…