L PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSTIC ANATOMY BY CHARLES B. SLADE, M. D. CHIEF OF CLINIC IN GENERAL MEDICINE AND INSTRUCTOR IN ILLUSTRATED PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY 1910 THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED ΤΟ PROFESSOR HERMANN M. BIGGS In grateful recognition of his worthy tioner of medicine, as well as his inestimable per sonal friendship PREFACE THIS book, as its title implies, is intended to be a text-book on Physical Examination, its technic, fundamental methods and principles, to prepare the students for the study of any of the various able and comprehensive works already written upon Physical Diagnosis. The diagnosis of specific disease conditions has been carefully avoided, as this work deals chiefly with the normal subject, a few instances of the abnormal being mentioned here and there to emphasize the importance of certain procedures and to retain the interest of the student. The subject matter has been arranged to accord Iwith what I believe to be the natural course that an average minded student pursues in acquiring knowledge regarding any subject which attracts spontaneous interest. My experience in the teaching of Physical Diagnosis has convinced me that the student's initial course in this work should be chiefly practical, with a minimum of text-book study. This book is intended to supply that text, and at the same time avoid placing before the student exhaustive discussions and problems of diagnosis which he is not prepared to fully understand at |