SKODA, Josef (1805-1881). Abhandlung ber Perkussion und Auskultation . Vienna: J. G. Ritter von Msle's Witwe & Braumller, 1839. 8 o (216 x 138 mm). (Some marginal discoloration, occasional slight soiling, a few corners bent at end.) Original green printed boards (soiled and stained, joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance : Dr. Ignaz Rudolph Bischoff (1784-1850) (author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper); deleted inkstamp on front free endpaper (partly effacing inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Skoda, a native of Bohemia, worked with the eminent pathologist Karl von Rokitansky in the latter's Pathology-Anatomy Institute in Vienna, and helped establish the New Vienna School as a leading center for medical research. He based his investigation of the diagnostic methods of percussion and auscultation on his knowledge of physical acoustics. Both methods had been advocated in France and Great Britain by Lannec, Corvisart, William Stokes and others, but "had not penetrated into general medical practice because they were difficult to master... [Skoda] simplified and unified the terminology, defined concepts, and supplemented them with his own observations and experience... [He] critically evaluated the doctrines of the French school of medicine, which distinguished percussion sounds according to the organ... and substituted a physical classification of percussion sound in four categories: from full to empty, from clear to muffled, from tympanous to nontympanous, from high to deep. A part of modern diagnostics is Skoda's discovery of tympanous percussion [known as 'Skodaic resonance'] in the presence of serous pleurisy" (DSB). This work, frequently reprinted and translated into English in 1853, led to the general acceptance of percussion and auscultation as diagnostic techniques. Garrison-Morton 2676; Heirs of Hippocrates 1676; Waller 8978; Norman 1953.
SKODA, Josef (1805-1881). Abhandlung ber Perkussion und Auskultation . Vienna: J. G. Ritter von Msle's Witwe & Braumller, 1839. 8 o (216 x 138 mm). (Some marginal discoloration, occasional slight soiling, a few corners bent at end.) Original green printed boards (soiled and stained, joints and extremities rubbed). Provenance : Dr. Ignaz Rudolph Bischoff (1784-1850) (author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper); deleted inkstamp on front free endpaper (partly effacing inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Skoda, a native of Bohemia, worked with the eminent pathologist Karl von Rokitansky in the latter's Pathology-Anatomy Institute in Vienna, and helped establish the New Vienna School as a leading center for medical research. He based his investigation of the diagnostic methods of percussion and auscultation on his knowledge of physical acoustics. Both methods had been advocated in France and Great Britain by Lannec, Corvisart, William Stokes and others, but "had not penetrated into general medical practice because they were difficult to master... [Skoda] simplified and unified the terminology, defined concepts, and supplemented them with his own observations and experience... [He] critically evaluated the doctrines of the French school of medicine, which distinguished percussion sounds according to the organ... and substituted a physical classification of percussion sound in four categories: from full to empty, from clear to muffled, from tympanous to nontympanous, from high to deep. A part of modern diagnostics is Skoda's discovery of tympanous percussion [known as 'Skodaic resonance'] in the presence of serous pleurisy" (DSB). This work, frequently reprinted and translated into English in 1853, led to the general acceptance of percussion and auscultation as diagnostic techniques. Garrison-Morton 2676; Heirs of Hippocrates 1676; Waller 8978; Norman 1953.
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