Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi
first edition
1761 · Vienna
by AUENBRUGGER, Leopold
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. (Inventory #: 45)