Excerpt from The Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Vol. 11 Vol. VII, The Diseases, p. 71. 'after giving the picture of a very ill person the author says, Seat him on a seat which will not stir. Let some one hold him by the arms while you shake him by the shoulders, and listen to hear on which side the sound is produced. He advises to operate on that side, but states there is less danger to incise the left. P. 67. Succussion is here recommended not for diagnostic purposes but as a therapeutic measure, in fact as one of the gentler, less heroic means to be first tried, to encourage the rupture of a peripneumonic abscess. (one cannot wonder that later writers condemned all succussion as too severe.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.