It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secresy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest.
Crepitus. A crackling or crunching sound heard when the ends of a fractured piece of bone rub against each other. Mentioned in: Gangrene, Nasal Trauma.
The tactile sensation you feel over your chest has the same cause as the sounds one can hear with a stethoscope, mucus or water in the airways or air sacs. Rales are fine crackles and can usually not be felt with your hand. They are most characteristic of heart failure and a class of diseases called interstitial lung disease (ILD). Ronchi are coarser sounds caused by the rattle of mucus in the airways.