Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis.

This book concerns itself with the physical diagnosis of thoracic and abdominal diseases. Diseases of the head, the extremities or of the nervous system are not included. There is no consideration of special laboratory technic, such subjects as the examination of the blood, feces, urine or stomach contents being referred to only incidentally. In the discussion of physical signs especially emphasis is laid on the regional anatomy, both normal and pathologic, as well as on normal and disturbed function, as explaining the origin and mechanism of the physical signs of health and of disease. Explanations are in general clear, and there is little or no obtrusion of dogmatic opinions of the author or of a confusing mass of more or less conflicting notions of others. The book shows, as stated in the preface, that it has been carefully adapted by a practical teacher to the needs of the class-room. While