Classics of cardiology : a collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors : Fifty-two contributions by fifty-one authors / By Fredrick A. Willius and Thomas E. Keys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willius, Fredrick A. (Fredrick Arthur), 1888-1972, author.

Keys, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1908- author.

Contributor:

Dover Publications, Inc., publisher.

Henry Schuman, Inc., publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Dover books on biology and medicine.

Dover books on biology and medicine

Standardized Title:

Cardiac classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart--Diseases.

Heart.

Cardiology--Biography.

Cardiology.

Cardiology--History.

History.

Cardiovascular System.

Medical Subjects:

Cardiovascular System.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (858 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Schuman, Inc. 1961, ©1941.

New York : Dover Publications, Inc.

Contents:

Vol. 1. An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart & blood in animals (1628) / William Harvey

A nice observation of the perviousness of the septum of the heart (1640) / Pierre Gassendi

Epistle II : about the lungs (1661) / Marcello Malpighi

On the muscular nature of the heart (1664) / Niels Stensen

Of ossifications or petrifactions in the coats of arteries, particularly in the valves of the great artery (1705) / William Cowper

On the circulation of the blood in fishes, etc. (1708) / Antony van Leuwenhoek

An account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals (1733) / Stephen Hales

Operation of stomachic remedies in palpitation (1749) / Jean-Baptiste de Sénac

Description of calcification of the heart (1755) / Albrecht von Haller Descriptions of mitral stenosis, heart block calcareous stenosis of the aortic valve with regurgitation, coronary sclerosis and aneurysm of the aorta (1761) / John Baptist Morgagni

On percussion of the chest (1761) /rJoseph Leopold Auenbrugger

Account of a disorder of the breast (1772) / William Heberden

An account of the foxglove (1785) / William Withering

Of a remarkable transposition of the viscera (1788) / Matthew Baillie

The record of his cardiac history as detailed by himself and later published by his brother-in-law, Everard Home (1794) / John Hunter

Essay on the diseases and organic lesions of the heart (1806) / Jean Nicolas Corvisart

On rheumatism of the heart (1812) / William Charles Wells

A case of apoplexy, in which the fleshy part of the heart was converted into fat (1818) / John Cheyne

Treatise on mediate auscultation (1819) / René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec Enlargement of the thyroid gland in connection with enlargement or palpitation of the heart (1825) / Caleb Hillier Parry

Cases of diseases of the heart, accompanied with pathological observations (1827) / Robert Adams.

Vol. 2. Treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels (1831) / James Hope

On permanent patency of the mouth of the aorta, or inadequacy of the aortic valves (1832 / Sir Dominic John Corrigan

On the pathology of endocarditis (1835) / Jean Baptiste Bouillaud

Observations on some cases of permanently slow pulse (1846) / William Stokes

On some of the principal effects resulting from the detachment of fibrinous deposits from the interior of the heart, and their mixture with the circulating blood (1852) / William Senhouse Kirkes

Fatty degeneration of the heart (1854) / William Stokes

The double intermittent murmur over the femoral arteries as a sign of aortic insufficiency (1861) / Paul Louis Duroziez

On cardiac murmurs (1862) / Austin Flint

On the movements and sounds that take place in the jugular veins (1867) / Pierre Carl Édouard Potain

On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris (1867) / Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton

II. Observations on capillary and venoud pulse (1868) / Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke

Capillary embolism or arterial pyaemia (1870) / Sir Samuel Wilks

A case of pulsus bigeminus, including remarks on the enlargement of the liver in valvular insufficiency and on acute atrophy of the liver (1872) / Ludwigh Traube

The state of arteries on Bright's disease (1876) / Sir William Richard Gowers

The pathology of the circulation (1877) / Julius Friedrich Cohnheim

Clinical researches on the congenital communication of the two sides of the hearts, by failure of occlusion of the interventricular septum (1879) ; Communication concerning congenital patency of the interventricular septum (1879) / Henri Louis Roger

Nitro-glycerine as a remedy for angina pectoris 1879) / William Murrell

The theory of gallop rhythm 1885) / Pierre Carl Édouard Potainte of amyl in angina pectoris A demonstration on man of electromotive changes accompanying the heart's beat (1887) / Augustus Désiré Waller

Fibrillar contraction of the heart (1887) / John Alexander McWilliam

The murmur of high pressure in the pulmonary artery (1888) / Graham Steell

Contribution to the pathologic anatomy of morbus caeruleus (cardiac cyanosis) (1888) / Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot

The function of the embryonic heart and its significance in the interpretation of the heart action in the adult (1893) / William His, Jr.

A method for more fully determining the outline of the heart by means of the fluoroscope together with other uses of this instrument in medicine 1896) / Francis Henry Williams

Diseases of the pericardium (1897) / Sir William Henry Broadbent

The galvanometric registration of the human electrocardiogram, likewise a review of the use of the capillary-electrometerin physiology (1903) / Wiliam Einthovenis Concerning the question of myocarditis (1904) / Ludwig Aschoff

The form and nature of the muscular connections between the primary divisions of the vertebrate heart (1907) / Sir Arthur Keith and Martin William Flack

Auricular fibrillation (1908) ; Sir James Mackenzie's heart / Sir James Mackenzie

Chronic infectious endocarditis (1909) / Sir William Osler

Clinical features of the sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries (1912) / James Bryan Herrick

The stethoscope song

a professional ballad / Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Notes:

"This new Dover edition, first published in 1961, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published by the C. V. Mosby Company in 1941 under the former title: Cardiac classics. This work was originally published in one volume but now appears in two volumes."--verso of title page.

"Copyright ©1941 by Frederick A. Williams and Thomas E. Keys"--verso of title page.

Advertisements at end of both volumes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Other Format:

Online version: Willius, Frederick A. (Fredrick Arthur), 1888- Classics of cardiology.

ISBN:

0898745144

9780898745146

0898745152

9780898745153

OCLC:

1193839