Dear all,
I would be very grateful for any references on the history of prolonged
expiration as a clinical sign pointing to respiratory (obstructive) disease.
Was Laennec the first one to notice? Were there any earlier descriptions?
Thanks
Tatjana Buklijas, B.M., M.Phil.
Division for the History of Medicine
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Demetrova 18
10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
phone: xx 385 1 485 1884
http://public.srce.hr/~tabukli/
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