DEBUT OF THORACIC PERCUSSION
AUENBRUGGER, Leopold Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi. Vienna J.T. Trattner 1761
Very rare first edition, first issue (without the errata printed on verso of F8) of “one of the greatest of medical classics” describing a new method of physical diagnosis—thoracic percussion, namely, tapping a patient’s chest and determining from the resultant sound whether it was healthy or diseased.
$US14500
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