Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi

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  • Vienna: J.T. Trattner, 1761
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.

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Title

Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi

Author

AUENBRUGGER, Leopold

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

J.T. Trattner: Vienna

Date

1761


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