Practical observations on nervous and sympathetic palpitation of the heart, as well as on palpitation the result of organic disease / by John Calthrop Williams.

  • Williams, John Calthrop, 1801-1856.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Practical observations on nervous and sympathetic palpitation of the heart, as well as on palpitation the result of organic disease / by John Calthrop Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    allude, immense progress has been made—physical signs have been traced to their efficient causes Avith a surprising degree of certainty—the nature of functional diseases of the heart is better under- stood—their differential characters more clearly ascertained—their physiological and physical dia- gnosis more accurately established—and, as a necessary consequence, the treatment of this inter- esting and important class of diseases, keeping pace with the advancement of science, has been rendered, in an eminent degree, satisfactory and successful. The progress to which I have thus briefly alluded, has imposed upon me new duties; and the present edition, instead of being amended and enlarged, has been almost entirely re-written, so as to constitute essentially a new work. I have omitted the chapter on the use of the stetho- scope in exploration of the chest, and replaced it by one devoted to the physical examination of the heart and central system of circulation. In the present edition, also, a more methodical arrange- ment of the subject has been adopted, and the different varieties of functional palpitation de- scribed in much greater detail. To the results of my own observation and