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Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine — John Shaqi

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Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine

Name: Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine
Author: Scudamore, Charles

Scudamore, Charles

Chest -- Diseases -- Diagnosis; Laennec, R. T. H. (René Théophile Hyacinthe), 1781-1826

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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                            OBSERVATIONS,

                              _&c. &c._

                             OBSERVATIONS

                                  ON

                             M. LAENNEC’S

                    METHOD OF FORMING A DIAGNOSIS

                                OF THE

                        DISEASES OF THE CHEST

                             BY MEANS OF

                           THE STETHOSCOPE,

                                AND OF

                             PERCUSSION;

                       AND UPON SOME POINTS OF

                   THE FRENCH PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

                                  BY

                    CHARLES SCUDAMORE, M.D. F.R.S.

  Member of the College of Physicians in London; Honorary Member of
    Trinity College, Dublin; of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of
    Edinburgh; and of the Medical Society of Paris; Member of the
    Medico-Chirurgical Society of London; Physician in Ordinary to
    His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, &c. &c.

                               London:
                       PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
             By Joseph Mallett, 59, Wardour Street, Soho;

                           AND PUBLISHED BY
                LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
                           PATERNOSTER ROW.

                                1826.

                                  TO
                       Sir HENRY HALFORD, Bart.
                             K.H. F.R.S.
         PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, PHYSICIAN TO
                        THE KING, &c. &c. &c.

  MY DEAR SIR,

In requesting the honour of dedicating to you the following pages, I
am actuated by the feelings of respect and personal regard, which I
entertain equally for your public and for your private character.

It is also with more than ordinary interest that I address my
observations to you, as the President of the College; an office
which, it may with truth be said, you fill with no less dignity to
yourself, than with benefit to the whole profession.

In becoming an advocate for the employment of the stethoscope, I
disclaim adopting principles in the practice of physic, which might
with any justice be called mechanical.

It cannot however be denied, that with all the improvements which
the art of medicine has received, it still must, on many occasions,
depend greatly on conjecture.

Some of the diseases of the chest are attended with such obscurity,
that the detection of their precise nature bids defiance to the
most acute penetration. What prudent physician, then, will disdain
to avail himself of the means which this simple but philosophical
instrument affords, of obtaining a more faithful diagnosis?

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Observations on M. Laennec's method of forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means of the stethoscope, and of percussion; and upon some points of the French practice of medicine

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