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Josef Leopold Auenbrugger or Avenbrugger (19 November 1722 – 17 May 1809), also known as Leopold von Auenbrugger, was an Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique. On the strength of this discovery, he is considered one of the founders of modern medicine.
May 13, 2024 · Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg (born Nov. 19, 1722, Graz, Austria—died May 17, 1809, Vienna) was a physician who devised the diagnostic technique of percussion (the art of striking a surface part of the body with short, sharp taps to diagnose the condition of the parts beneath the sound).
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Apr 1, 2006 · Josef Leopold Auenbrugger invented the technique of percussing the patient’s chest in 1754, just two years before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth in 1756. The son of an innkeeper, Auenbrugger is said to have tapped wine barrels in his father’s cellar as a boy to find out how full they were.
Oct 13, 2022 · Josef Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg (1722-1809) was an Austrian Physician Credited with describing the effectiveness of chest percussion in the diagnosis of cardiac and respiratory disease. Auenbrugger described camphor-induced seizures as a remedy for manic psychosis and suicidal thought.
Viennese physician who discovered and classified the various sounds that healthy and diseased chests make when struck. By striking different areas of the patient's chest gently but firmly with his fingers, he was able to determine specific sites and types of chest conditions.
Oct 23, 2014 · Leopold Auenbrugger was a physician, but he was also a composer who wrote an opera for an Austrian empress. However the coming together of music and medicine had its origins in watching his father tap on the side of wine barrels to determine their contents.
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Jul 17, 2018 · Leopold Auenbrugger (1722-1809), the inventor of percussion, joins René Laennec as the father of modern physical examination. On the occasion of the bicentennial of the invention of the stethoscope (1816), I went in search of the material footprints left by Auenbrugger in his homeland, Austria.
