succussion

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This sign is still used by physicians and is known as Hippocratic succussion.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Accelerated inspiration of pure air and a gentle succussion of all the internal organs are blended with that consciousness of power and that self-dependence which the good horseman always feels in the saddle.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

It is peculiarly suited to dyspeptics, from its direct action upon the abdominal viscera, the contents of which are stimulated by the continued agitation and succussion, consequent on the motion in riding.

From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Steele, Joel Dorman

And no doubt can be entertained that many of his patients were the better for the violent succussion of the system which his developed practice put them through.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various