Auscultation

the art of discovering diseases within the body by means of the sense of hearing. Being carried out most efficiently by means of an instrument called a stethoscope, it is often called mediate auscultation. — -— among the Romans, omen® especially those drawn from the flight or other movements of birds, or, le properly, from the occurrence of lightning or thunder in particular parts of the sky. These were supai to be indications of the will of eaven, and to reveal futurity.