Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation by Skoda, Joseph - 1850

Vienna: L.W. Seidel, 1850. Fourth edition (first published in 1839). xvi, 324 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth. Some fading of spine, minor browning of text, else fine. Fourth edition (first published in 1839). xvi, 324 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fourth edition of this important medical work by Viennese medical luminary Joseph Skoda (1805-1881), along with Rokitansky one of the major figures of the Viennese "New School" of the mid-nineteenth-century. "Skoda classified the various sounds obtained on percussion according to their musical pitch and tone. Skoda's resonance is an important diagnostic sign in pneumonia and pericardial effusion. Following Skoda's work percussion at last gained general acceptance as a diagnostic procedure" (G-M).

From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder, co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer (JAMA 143:329) and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal, Preventive Medicine. Garrison-Morton 2676 (first ed.)