Abhandlung Uber Perkussion Und Auskultation

Wien: Bei l. W. Seidel, 1850. Fourth Edition, first published in 1839. 8vo size hardcover has tan and blue green marbled boards under leather spine and corners. 324 pages with red speckled outside pages. Firmly sewn binding. Half title page follows title page. Dr. Josef Skoda (1805 - 1881) is best known for his work as a pioneer in percussive diagnostics. The facq.org biography of Skoda says: "In 1839, Skoda published his treatise on percussion and auscultation. In it he attempts to classify the sounds in the chest according to categories that take into account musical pitch and tonality, with alternations from full to hollow, clear to dull, tympanitic to muffled, and high to deep. The drum-like tympanic resonance heard on percussion above an area of pneumonia or lung fluid is known as Skodaic resonance." An article about Dr. Skoda on whonamedit.com explains Skoda's development (or expansion of the work of Josef Leopold Auenbrugger more than 50 years before) of the fundamentals of percussion and auscultation, as diagnostical tools in clinical medicine: "Around 1836 Skoda began investigating the fundamentals of percussion and auscultation, then two of the modern examination methods in clinical medicine... Skoda's approach was based solely on the objective description of physical signs. To him, the acoustic phenomena produced by percussion were not specific for a given organ, but for the amount of air or fluid; hollow, empty, tympanic, high, deep, clear, dull. Based on acoustic phenomena, Skoda tried to explain the physical changes in an organ and then, from the anatomical and pathologic possibilities, he reached a clinical diagnostic conclusion. In the theory of auscultation Skoda first distinguished reverberations (heart sounds) from cardiac murmurs. On the basis of comparative observations of healthy people and those known to have heart disease he learned to diagnose various heart illnesses from the presence of murmurs in individual valves. He also evaluated pulsations of the neck veins and accentuation of further reverberations in the pulmonary artery. Through his lucid account of functional changes and symptoms attendant upon various changes in valves of the heart or the pericardium, he established the principles of the clinical physiology of heart diseases." The exterior spine cover missing; leather corners are worn and chipped. Chip to side of bottom corner. Edgewear; top dusty. Some tanned margins to endpapers. Booksellers notation and owner's name on fep. Title page has some soil (looks like graphite) and a penciled name just above title. Title page and following page have a lower corner which was not cut properly by publisher and is folded at corner. There is a large - about three quarters of the page - light stain first visible on back of title page and staining continues to varying sizes throughout the book. Pages are surprisingly bright, especially toward the center and stain does not obscure any text. There is also stain on lower corner of pages 245 through 276. There also appears to be some very light foxing mostly in the right margin throughout. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. 4th. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.