The article about life and activity of Leopold Auenbrugger. The history of percussion had been traced since 1761, when the work “A New Discovery that Enables the Physician from the Percussion of the Human Thorax to Detect the Diseases Hidden Within the Chest” of L. Auenbrugger was published up to 1826, when Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794–1879) had invented plessimetr.
