Physical Signs in Medicine and Surgery: An Atlas of Rare, Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs

INTRODUCTION  13
PHYSICAL SIGNS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Fred Ashley White  21
JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES
Ambroise Paré  253
AN ACCOUNT OF THE SORE THROAT ATTENDED WITH ULCERS
John Fothergill  287
ON PERCUSSION OF THE CHEST
Josef Leopold Auenbrugger, Edler von Auenbrugg 317
CHICKEN POX
William Heberden  332
AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE VARIOLAE
VACCINAE, OR COW-POX, PART I AND II
Edward Jenner  335
AN ACCOUNT OF A PECULIAR DISEASE OF THE HEART
David Dundas  385
BRIEF OUTLINE OF A PLAN FOR DIMINISHING THE PREVALENCE
AND FATAL TENDENCY OF HOOPING-COUGH
Henry Edmonstone  389
OBSERVATIONS ON THE DROPSY, WHICH SUCCEEDS SCARLET FEVER
William Charles Wells  393
ON THE FRACTURE OF THE CARPAL EXTREMITY OF THE RADIUS
Abraham Colles  400
A CASE OF APOPLEXY, IN WHICH THE FLESHY PART OF THE HEART
WAS CONVERTED INTO FAT
John Cheyne  403
AUSCULTATION OF THE VOICE
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec  407
PRACTICAL ESSAY ON TYPHOUS FEVER
Nathan Smith  417
AUSCULTATION OF SOUNDS NOT NECESSARILY ACCOMPANYING
THE RESPIRATION AND VOICE
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec  444
ON PERMANENT PATENCY OF THE MOUTH OF THE AORTA OR
INADEQUACY OF THE AORTIC VALVES
Dominic John Corrigan  452
PERMANENT RETRACTION OF THE FINGERS PRODUCED BY AN
AFFECTION OF THE PALMAR FASCIA
Baron Guillaume Dupuytren  469
THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER
Oliver Wendell Holmes  476
FATTY DEGENERATION OF THE HEART
William Stokes  501
REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF INFANTILE SYPHILIS IN MARRING
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEETH
Jonathan Hutchinson  507
ON CARDIAC MURMURS
Austin Flint  512
RETINITIS IN GLYCOSURIA
Henry Drury Noyes  537
ON THE PROPER DESIGNATION OF THE PRESENT EPIDEMIC
(CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS)
Alfred Stillé  540
ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY
Joseph Lister  548
MARKINGS OR FURROWS ON THE NAILS AS THE RESULT OF ILLNESS
Samuel Wilks  557
ON AN INTERESTING SERIES OF EYE-SYMPTOMS IN A CASE
OF SPINAL DISEASE, WITH REMARKS ON THE ACTION OF
BELLADONNA ON THE IRIS, ETC
Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson  559
ON DISEASE OF THE MAMMARY AREOLA PRECEDING CANCER OF
THE MAMMARY GLAND
James Paget  571
THE GERM THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO MEDICINE AND
SURGERY
Louis Pasteur  574
ON THE EXTENSION OF THE GERM THEORY TO THE ETIOLOGY OF
CERTAIN COMMON DISEASES
Louis Pasteur  578
ON CYCLIC ALBUMINURIA (ALBUMINURIA IN THE
APPARENTLY HEALTHY)
Frederick William Pavy  586
BAKER’S CYST: THE FORMATION OF ABNORMAL SYNOVIAL CYSTS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE JOINTS (SECOND COMMUNICATION)
William Morrant Baker  594
EXPERIENCE WITH EARLY OPERATIVE INTERFERENCE IN CASES
OF DISEASE OF THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX
Charles McBurney  606
ON THE AMOEBA COLI IN DYSENTERY AND IN DYSENTERIC
LIVER ABSCESS
William Osler  624
THREE LECTURES ON SOME POINTS RELATING TO INJURIES
TO THE HEAD
William Henry Battle  629
THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE INVASION OF MEASLES FROM A STUDY OF THE
EXANTHEMA AS IT APPEARS ON THE BUCCAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE
Henry Koplik  648
THE ETIOLOGY OF YELLOW FEVER A PRELIMINARY NOTE
Walter Reed, James Carroll, A Agramonte, Jesse William Lazear  652
OPHTHALMOLOGY: RETRO-OCULAR NEURITIS
Robert Marcus Gunn  659
THE TRANSMISSION OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER BY
THE BITE OF THE WOOD-TICK (DERMACENTOROCCIDENTALIS)
Howard Taylor Ricketts  662
CHRONIC INFECTIOUS ENDOCARDITIS
William Osler  664
THE RECTAL SHELF: A NEGLECTED RECTAL SIGN OF VALUE IN
THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF OBSCURE MALIGNANT AND
INFLAMMATORY DISEASE WITHIN THE ABDOMEN
George Blumer  676
PECULIAR ELONGATED AND SICKLE-SHAPED RED BLOOD
CORPUSCLES IN A CASE OF SEVERE ANEMIA
James Bryan Herrick  680
FIVE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS OF JOHN BENJAMIN MURPHY
Guy G Dowdall  686
THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE
William Osler  689
BIBLIOGRAPHY  797