And basically everything we know about percussion, which you can think of as an ultrasound of its day -- organ enlargement, fluid around the heart, fluid in the lungs, abdominal changes -- all of this he described in this wonderful manuscript "Inventum Novum," "New Invention," which would have disappeared into obscurity, except for the fact that this physician, Corvisart, a famous French physician -- famous only because he was physician to this gentleman --
打診はいわば当時の超音波診断ですが 今日知られている全て －臓器肥大も 心嚢水も肺水腫も 腹部の異変なども全て この優れた著書に記されています 「新発見」 この手法は忘れさられるところでした 著名なフランスの医師 コルヴィザール－ 彼はこちらの紳士の 主治医であったことのみで有名でしたが－