percuss

Updated: May 24, 2025

I was amazed when he stripped, for his whole body was covered with a perfect panorama of tattooings, with a big blue Venus right over his heart. "You may knock," said he, when I began to percuss his chest, "but I am sure there's no one at home. They've all gone visiting one another. Sir John Hutton had a try some years ago. 'Why, dammy, man, where's your liver? said he.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Stark Munro Letters