Ivory and silver pleximeter

Percussion--Equipment and supplies

Diagnosis--Equipment and supplies

Percussion--instrumentation

Diagnostic Equipment

Diagnostic

Image 101-1607

Used to locate thoracic lesions by percussion Auenbrugger

Ebony with notches for measurement and ornately-decorated silver handles on either side for easy handling. Leopold Auenbrugger, who reinvented percussion as a diagnostic technique, employed a special instrument called a pleximeter although later most American physicians preferred to use their index fingers to percuss their patients. The pleximeter was held on the skin, and tapped with the hammer (percussor).

Auenbrugger, Leopold, 1722-1809

Health Sciences Library

State University of New York at Buffalo

1860-1880

Cravens, Annette

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8x3.5 cm.

Percussion

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Still image

93.8.11

LIB-HSL001

Pleximeter

9/28/2009

Ivory and silver