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Exploration of the chest in health and disease

Stephen Smith Burt · 1889 · Scanned text · Free in the US

51,346 words · about 3 h 36 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1889, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/07008401); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Stephen Smith Burt
Language
English
Published
1889
Length
51,346 words · about 3 h 36 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Contents about 12 min
  3. Introduction about 2 h 26 min
  4. Index about 14 min
  5. Part I. The Unknowable. Part II. Laws of the Knowable about 42 min
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Introduction 7

Explanation of the term physical signs ; Definition of exploration ; Necessity for this method of examination ; Importance at the same time of subjective signs ; Reason for thoroughness ; Faults to be avoided ; Chest-marks ; Relative position of the lungs, liver, stomach, spleen, and kidneys to the surface of the chest described.

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