RT Journal
A1 Benedict AL
T1 PRecordial area in children.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD January 21
VO XXXII
IS 3
SP 137
OP 138
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450300039011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450300039011
AB Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1899.To the Editor: 
    —Although rather late, I would like to discuss the paper of Dr. H. B. Whitney on "Precordial Area in Children," published in the Journal of Nov. 5, 1898. Although my work does not include attendance on many children—for some reason, children remain in the hands of the general practitioner when adults would seek a specialist—yet it seems that such a peculiar variation with age as Dr. Whitney assigns to the precordial area would have attracted attention. While agreeing with Dr. Hall's remark that percussion should be made with the fingers—personally, I rarely use more than the one finger—and with Dr. Musser's observation as to the possibilities of palpation in the intercostal spaces, I should like to urge the more general use of auscultatory percussion. By this method, the mapping out of organs is rendered very simple and positive. It is rather