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Josef Leopold Auenbrugger
(19 Nov 1722 - 17 May 1809)
Austrian physician who developed percussion of the thorax.
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Science Quotes by Josef Leopold Auenbrugger (1 quote)
I here present the reader with a new sign which I have discovered for detecting diseases of the chest. This consists in percussion of the human thorax, whereby, according to the character of the particular sounds then elicited, an opinion is formed of the internal state of that cavity.
— Josef Leopold Auenbrugger
New Invention by Means of Percussing the Human Thorax for Detecting Signs of Obscure Disease of the Interior of the Chest, Inventum novum ex percussione (31 Dec 1761).
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- 19 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Auenbrugger's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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