AUENBRUGGER, Leopold (1722 – 1809)
1722 – 1809
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1761 CE
#2672
Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi.
The greatness of Auenbrugger’s discovery of the value of immediate percussion of the chest as a diagnostic measure was not recognized until many years after he first published. His little book met with a cold re…
1824 CE
#11599
Original cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest: Also commentaries on the same subjects selected and translated from Auenbrugger, Corvisart, Laennec and others
This is the earliest English work on the stethoscope. It "includes the first English translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion, selected sections from Laennec's book on auscultation, and detailed reports from 39…