📚 Physical Examination

Books with physical examination on their catalogue record, first published between 1868 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject physical examination in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,471 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Lessons in physical diagnosis	Alfred L. Loomis	1868	18
	Physical diagnosis	Richard C. Cabot	1905	13
	Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis	George William Norris	1917	13
	Physical Examination and Health Assessment	Carolyn Jarvis	1992	13
	Demonstrations of physical signs in clinical surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1927	12
	Demonstrations of physical signs in clinical surgery	Hamilton Bailey	1930	12
	Bedside cardiology	Jules Constant	1969	9
	Orthopedic physical assessment	David J. Magee	1987	9
	Muscle testing	Lucille Daniels	1947	8
	Neurology	Andrew Tarulli	2010	8
	Health assessment & physical examination	Mary Ellen Zator Estes	2006	7
	A clinical text-book of medical diagnosis for physicians and students	Oswald Vierordt	1891	6
	Introduction to clinical examination	Macleod, John.	1974	6
	Physical diagnosis : a guide to methods of clinical investigation	Gibson, George Alexander	1893	5
	Measurement of joint motion	Cynthia C. Norkin	1985	5
	Health Assessment for Nursing Practice	Jean Foret Giddens	1999	5
	Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis	Steven McGee	2001	5
	Brigham Intensive Review of Internal Medicine	Ajay K. Singh	2014	5
	A treatise on diagnostic methods of examination	Hermann Sahli	1905	4
	Bedside diagnostic examination	Elmer Louis DeGowin	1965	4
	The physical examination	L. Lodewick	1982	4
	Health Assessment & Physical Examination	Mary Ellen Zator Estes	2001	4
	Hutchison's clinical methods	Michael Swash	2007	4
	A Clinical Textbook Of Medical Diagnosis For Physicians And Students	Oswald Vierordt	1892	3
	Physical examination and diagnostic anatomy	Charles Blount Slade	1916	3
	The examination of patients	Nellis Barnes Foster	1923	3
	Physical examination of the surgical patient	J. Englebert Dunphy	1953	3
	A guide to physical examination	Barbara Bates	1974	3
	Hutchinson's Clinical Methods	Michael Swash	1984	3
	Macleod's clinical examination	C. R. W. Edwards	1995	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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