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Excerpt from Physical Signs of Diseases of the Thorax and Abdomen This book has been written for medical students, in the hope that in it they will find the help which they especially need in their earlier medical studies. The physical signs of disease of the thorax and of the abdomen, as ascertained by the six chief methods of examination - viz., by inspection, palpation, mensuration, succussion, percussion, and auscultation - are shortly described. The causes of the physical signs present in health and in disease are discussed, and the usual explanations of them are given. A few, however, of the explanations are my own, while others are those of my former teachers. Differential diagnosis has been carefully considered, and as it concerns certain diseases its chief points have been tabulated. All the illustrations have been drawn by myself, and a few of them are only slightly modified from those already published in various text-books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.