Auscultation and percussion : together with other methods of physical examination of the chest / by Samuel Gee.

  • Gee, Samuel (Samuel Jones), 1839-1911.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Auscultation and percussion : together with other methods of physical examination of the chest / by Samuel Gee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    anteroposterior diameter is especially small. This diminution in capacity is brought about by drooping, or undue obliquity of the ribs, hence the shoulders fall, and the length of the thorax from above down- wards is increased; it is the falling of the shoulders which causes the alar appearance. The pterygoid Fig. 3. Circumference = 59-5 centimeters. Alar Thorax. Tracing taken from a child. The dotted line indicates the shape of the chest of a healthy child of the same size. The circumferential measurement refers to the alar thorax. chest is often accompanied with a prominent throat, as Aretaeus1 says, due to a long neck, and the head being carried unduly forwards. ii. The Flat Chest.—The diminution in capacity presented by the alar chest does not necessitate any 1 Caus. et sign. morb. chron. bk. i. chap. 8.