Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1040

MAXIMILIAN STOLL (1742-1787) Aphorismes sur la connaissance et la curation des fièvres. Traduits en français par J. N. Corvisart. Avec le text latin. Régent et Bernard 1797 xx, 581 pp. 20 cm.

Stoll was a member of the influential Viennese School which, during his lifetime, became one of the focal points of European medical inquiry. He is generally regarded as a systematist relying heavily on the work of Sydenham. Stoll was one of the few physicians of the Viennese School who supported Auenbrugger's views on percussion. In this treatise on fevers he refers favorably to the practice and, in all probability, it was here that the translator, Corvisart, became acquainted with the subject. This prompted him to translate also Auenbrugger's classic work (see No. 954), which subsequently led to the general acceptance of percussion as a diagnostic practice.

See Related Record(s): 954

Cited references: Cushing S435; Osler 4040 (Latin ed., 1787); Waller 9286

Gift of John Martin, M.D.