Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1676

JOSEF ŠKODA (1805-1881) Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation. Bei J. G. Ritter von Mösle's Witwe & Braumüller 1839 xviii, 271 pp. 21.3 cm.

Škoda was born in Bohemia and studied medicine in Vienna where he eventually became one of the leading teachers of the revitalized Vienna school of medicine. His collaboration with Rokitansky (see No. 1658 ff.) helped place the New Vienna School at the leading edge of the advancement of medical knowledge. Following the principles established by the French masters, Laennec (see No. 1364 ff.) and Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879), Škoda refined the techniques of percussion and auscultation and classified the various sounds according to pitch and tone. Škoda's discoveries and observations in this area of clinical diagnosis were included in the present work which went through six editions and was translated into English in 1853. It is in this work that he describes the eponymous physical sign, "Škodaic resonance," the tympanic sound heard when percussing above a pleural effusion.

See Related Record(s): 1658 1364

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2676; Osler 3989 (French ed., 1854); Waller 8978

Gift of John Martin, M.D.