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Sunt enim animalia, quae dracones appellamus.... Haec inquam animalia in aere volant, in aquis natant, in terra ambulant. Adversus haec ergo hujusmodi inventum est remedium, ut videlicet rogus ex ossibus construeretur, et ita fumus hujusmodi animalia fugaret.
It took long for men to realize the value of this "inventum mirabile" used so effectively by the Alexandrians by Galen indeed, its full value has only been appreciated within the past century. Let me quote a paragraph from my Harveian Oration. "To the age of the hearer, in which men had heard and heard only, had succeeded the age of the eye in which men had seen and had been content only to see.
More than two centuries earlier Pliny gives indirect evidence to the same effect when he says of soap: "Galliarum hoc inventum rutilandis capillis ... apud Germanos majore in usu viris quam foeminis."
Auenbrugger's "Inventum novum" of percussion, recognized by Corvisart, extended the field; but the discovery of auscultation by Laennec, and the publication of his work "De l'Auscultation Mediate," 1819, marked an era in the study of medicine. The clinical recognition of individual diseases had made really very little progress; with the stethoscope begins the day of physical diagnosis.
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