Good read. Here's the best part: In 1816, I was consulted by a young woman laboring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and

Good read. Here's the best part: In 1816, I was consulted by a young woman laboring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method just mentioned [direct auscultation] being rendered inadmissible by the age and sex of the patient, I happened to recollect a simple and well-known fact in acoustics, ...