Clinical disorders of the heart beat : a handbook for practitioners and students / by Thomas Lewis.

  • Thomas Lewis
Date:
1920
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Credit: Clinical disorders of the heart beat : a handbook for practitioners and students / by Thomas Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And this conclusion is largely dictated by the belief that most of the every-day disturbances of the heart beat may now be identified by relatively simple means. If this is possible to a practitioner, then it is also possible for him to grasp the new general conceptions and to apply them in his daily work. More than nine years ago, and at a time when I was activety engaged in studying cardiac irregularities by exact graphic method, these thoughts were in my mind; they led me to search for a series of relatively simple tests, based upon enquiry into the clinical histories of patients and upon bedside methods then generally in vogue, by which the common disorders of the heart beat might be recognised. For this purpose I made a large number of observations and incorporated in this handbook the new information so gathered with that gained from the contemporary writings of nry co-workers. That its publication has been justified I judge from the repeated calls for new editions. I have again revised the text, and still