Classics of cardiology
Subtitle: 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: by Fredrick A. Willius and Thomas E. Keys
Series: Dover books on biology and medicine
Publisher: H. Schuman
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Copyright date: 1941
Subjects: Cardiology; History; Heart; Diseases; Biography; Cardiovascular System; Collected Works
Notes: "An unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published ... in 1941 under the former title Cardiac classics."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1.; title: An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart & blood in animals -- (1628) / -- William Harvey; title: A nice observation of the perviousness of the septum of the heart -- (1640) / -- Pierre Gassendi; title: Epistle II : about the lungs -- (1661) / -- Marcello Malpighi; title: 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; title: On the circulation of the blood in fishes, etc. -- (1708) / -- Antony van Leuwenhoek; title: An account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals -- (1733) / -- Stephen Hales; title: Operation of stomachic remedies in palpitation -- (1749) / -- Jean-Baptiste de Sénac; title: Description of calcification of the heart-- (1755) /-- Albrecht von Haller; title: 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; title: On percussion of the chest -- (1761) /rJoseph Leopold Auenbrugger; title: Account of a disorder of the breast -- (1772) / -- William Heberden; title: An account of the foxglove -- (1785) / -- William Withering; title: Of a remarkable transposition of the viscera -- (1788) / -- Matthew Baillie; title: The record of his cardiac history as detailed by himself and later published by his brother-in-law, Everard Home -- (1794) / -- John Hunter; title: Essay on the diseases and organic lesions of the heart -- (1806) / -- Jean Nicolas Corvisart; title: On rheumatism of the heart -- (1812) / -- William Charles Wells; title: A case of apoplexy, in which the fleshy part of the heart was converted into fat -- (1818) / -- John Cheyne; title: Treatise on mediate auscultation-- (1819) /-- René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec; title: Enlargement of the thyroid gland in connection with enlargement or palpitation of the heart -- (1825) / -- Caleb Hillier Parry; title: Cases of diseases of the heart, accompanied with pathological observations-- (1827) /-- Robert Adams.; title: Vol. 2.; title: Treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels -- (1831) / -- James Hope; title: On permanent patency of the mouth of the aorta, or inadequacy of the aortic valves -- (1832 / -- Sir Dominic John Corrigan; title: On the pathology of endocarditis -- (1835) / -- Jean Baptiste Bouillaud; title: Observations on some cases of permanently slow pulse -- (1846) / -- William Stokes; title: 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; title: Fatty degeneration of the heart -- (1854) / -- William Stokes; title: The double intermittent murmur over the femoral arteries as a sign of aortic insufficiency -- (1861) / -- Paul Louis Duroziez; title: On cardiac murmurs -- (1862) / -- Austin Flint; title: On the movements and sounds that take place in the jugular veins -- (1867) / -- Pierre Carl Édouard Potain; title: On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris; title: (1867) / -- Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton; title: II. Observations on capillary and venoud pulse -- (1868) / -- Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke; title: Capillary embolism or arterial pyaemia -- (1870) / -- Sir Samuel Wilks; title: 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; title: The state of arteries on Bright's disease -- (1876) / -- Sir William Richard Gowers; title: The pathology of the circulation -- (1877) / -- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim; title: Clinical researches on the congenital communication of the two sides of the hearts, by failure of occlusion of the interventricular septum -- (1879) ;; title: Communication concerning congenital patency of the interventricular septum -- (1879) / -- Henri Louis Roger; title: Nitro-glycerine as a remedy for angina pectoris -- 1879) / -- William Murrell; title: The theory of gallop rhythm-- 1885) /-- Pierre Carl Édouard Potain; title: A demonstration on man of electromotive changes accompanying the heart's beat -- (1887) / -- Augustus Désiré Waller; title: Fibrillar contraction of the heart -- (1887) / -- John Alexander McWilliam; title: The murmur of high pressure in the pulmonary artery -- (1888) / -- Graham Steell; title: Contribution to the pathologic anatomy of morbus caeruleus (cardiac cyanosis) -- (1888) / -- Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot; title: The function of the embryonic heart and its significance in the interpretation of the heart action in the adult -- (1893) / -- William His, Jr.; title: 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; title: Diseases of the pericardium -- (1897) / -- Sir William Henry Broadbent; title: The galvanometric registration of the human electrocardiogram, likewise a review of the use of the capillary-electrometerin physiology-- (1903) /-- Wiliam Einthoven; title: Concerning the question of myocarditis -- (1904) / -- Ludwig Aschoff; title: The form and nature of the muscular connections between the primary divisions of the vertebrate heart -- (1907) / -- Sir Arthur Keith and Martin William Flack; title: Auricular fibrillation -- (1908) ;; title: Sir James Mackenzie's heart  -- Sir James Mackenzie; title: Chronic infectious endocarditis -- (1909) / -- Sir William Osler; title: Clinical features of the sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries -- (1912) / -- James Bryan Herrick; title: The stethoscope song -- a professional ballad -- Oliver Wendell Holmes.