A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels : and on the affections which may be mistaken for them : comprising the author's view of the physiology of the heart's action and sounds, as demonstrated by his experiments on the motions and sounds in 1830, and on the sounds in 1834-5 / by J. Hope.

  • Hope, James, 1801-1841.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels : and on the affections which may be mistaken for them : comprising the author's view of the physiology of the heart's action and sounds, as demonstrated by his experiments on the motions and sounds in 1830, and on the sounds in 1834-5 / by J. Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. Vll ble compass. For this reason, I have avoided the multiplication of prolix cases,—offering no new ones except for the illustration of new points or doctrines. As, however, I have sometimes re- ferred to numbers so large as might seem incredible without ex- planation, it may be proper to state, once for all, that, out of upwards of 15,000 hospital in- and out-patients, whom I have treated during the last eight years, about seven per cent., as near as I can judge from a rough calculation,* have laboured under organic disease of the heart,—making a total of 1,050 cases, exclusive of those occurring in private practice. 1 have in several instances transferred to their proper sources discoveries which, in the first edition, I imagined to have be- longed to myself. Any similar oversights in the present edition I shall be happy to rectify, if the authors will oblige me with the information. I have, on the same principle, and, I trust, with perfect good feeling, ventured to reclaim for my countrymen and self a num- ber of discoveries, which an eminent French writer, probably from unacquaintance with the English language and medical literature, has imagined to have emanated from himself. Finally, I have added a few plates, which I trust will be found convenient. I have to express my obligations to Mr. James Freeman for the excellent Alphabetical Index, f * If I have leisure hereafter to sort these cases, I trust to give the exact per centage. + In an Appendix prefixed to this Index will be found the important autopsies of the cases of V ...., Esq., and Golf. J. H. 13, Lower Seymour-st. London, May 1], 1839.