Page:Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors (microform) - delivered to the post-graduate class Johns Hopkins University, 1893 (IA cihm 01686).pdf/8

 “Tue sources to which we turn for evidence respecting the existence and nature of abdominal tumors are; the form and appearance presented to the eye; the form still further discovered by the touch; the resistance ascer- tained by pressure; the sounds elicited by percussion; and, in a few instances, the sounds perceptible to tho ear, either alone or by the aid of the stethoscope ; and besides these local and physical signs, we look to the general con- dition of the system, and of the various excretions, as ren- dering us most important assistance, and being frequently indispensable toward the formation of a tolerably correct diagnosis.”—-(Richard Bright, On Abdominal Tumors.)

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