10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLESSIMETER»
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plessimeter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
plessimeter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
To elicit these characters distinctly, a loud sound should be produced; and this
may be effected by strong percussion, and by pressing the plessimeter firmly
down, so as to condense the soft wall of the chest, and render it a better
conductor of ...
2
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...
... on percussion sounds varying according to the situation in which it is placed,
and the state of the subjacent organs. To this instrument he has given the name
plessimeter, from two Greek words <r7o';asw, I strike, and /térgov, a measure.
3
Dr. Hooper's Physician's Vade-mecum ... Fourth edition, etc
to combine a good plessimeter with a hammer, so arranged as to strike the plate
each time with the same force. _ The most successful attempt of the kind is Dr.
Sibson's “ spring plessimeter,” which consists of a round pad of India-rubber fixed
...
Robert HOOPER (M.D.), William Augustus GUY,
1858
4
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
M. Tiorry has abandoned the terms which he used in his first publication, to
express the various sounds produced by the plessimeter , because they were
occasionally susceptible of false interpretations, and increased, besides, the
difficulties ...
5
London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine
Philp and Whicker, late Savigr.y, of St. James's Street, made the instrument for
me. The plessimeter (see engraving) is made of leather, moving upon a swivel to
adjust itself to the part. The percussor is attached to the stem of the plessimeter, ...
6
The North American Medical and Surgical Journal
The foregoing observations may be repeated in reference to the exploration of
the spleen. The indications obtained by means of the plessimeter in the diseases
of this organ do not, however, appear to be near so distinct as they are in ...
7
The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a ...
It is with this cylinder of leather that the horizontal circular piece in the plessimeter
is struck. The method of using these instruments is simple. The plessimeter, held
in the left hand, is applied to the chest with moderate pressure, care being ...
William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan,
1843
The advantages of a plessimeter lie in the facts that by means of it (1) the
percussion stroke can be made to reach to a greater depth on the one hand, and
(2) it can be applied to a smaller surface area on the other. Lack of
compressibility and ...
9
Lectures on clinical medicine, delivered at the Hotel-Dieu, ...
This fluctuation was produced by percussing the plessimeter with the hammer. "
The excessive profusion of the effusion, quite as much as the patient's difficulty of
breathing, caused Dr. Trousseau to resolve to have recourse to paracentesis of ...
10
Monographic Medicine: The clinical diagnosis of internal ...
The advantages of a plessimeter lie in the facts that by means of it (1) the
percussion stroke can be made to reach to a greater depth on the one hand, and
(2) it can be applied to a smaller surface area on the other. Lack of
compressibility and ...