Nouvelle Methode Pour Reconnaitre les Maladies Internes de la Poitrine par la Percussion de Cette Cavite

Leopold Auenbrugger, Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marets

Chez Mequignon-Marvis, A Paris, 1808

[Internal medicine: Percussion] Rebound in modern leather, with marbled end pages.  xxiij, [1], 440, [1], 4 p).  FIRST EDITION of Corvisart's translation of Auenbrugger's work, which expanded the original 95 pages into 440 pages with the addition of Corvisart's notes and comments. Corvisart "really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. His translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion resulted in the universal adoption of that procedure" (Garrison-Morton 2672). Norman 83. Heirs of Hippocrates 955. Osler Cat. 1866.