Volume 1

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 actions and sounds, as demonstrated by his experiments on the motions and sounds in 1830, and on the sounds in 1834-35 / 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 actions and sounds, as demonstrated by his experiments on the motions and sounds in 1830, and on the sounds in 1834-35 / by J. Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    percussion, with or without tinnitus (Laennec’s Cliquetis). 83. Murmurs from valvular disease, and the whole subject of particular valvular diagnosis, which will now, I confidently hope, be found one of the most simple and easy departments of auscul- tation. 4. Murmurs of the heart and arteries independent of 7. Abdominal murmurs, both connected with pregnancy, and otherwise. 8 Tremor or thrill of the heart, arteries, and veins. 9. Signs, general and physical, of pericarditis and endo-pericardi- tis. 10. Connexion of diseases of the heart with apoplexy, palsy, &e. 11. Partial dilatation or rea] aneurism of the heart. 12. The signs, physical and general, and the pulse of softening. 13. Signs of adipose disease of the heart. 14. Aneurisms of the aorta bursting into the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle. 15. Abdominal aneurisms. 16. Anzemic, nervous, dyspeptic, plethoric, bilious, and other sympathetic affections of the heart, with their diagnosis. 17. Displacements. 18. The pulses of disease of the heart. To the complaints made by some, that additions and alterations so considerable have been so tardily published,* though I have habitually taught most of them to my class and in the hospital for several years, I can only reply by pleading my utter inability, even if there had been the inclination, to devote more than an average share of attention to any one subject ;—an inability which rests upon all those who, to the private distractions of a laborious profession, add the onerous duties of hospital physicians and teachers of the practice of medicine. I can, indeed, truly say, with Senac and others, that I have worked slowly and painfully, inter “ taedia et labores,” in fragments of time hardly redeemed from excessive professional engagements. I have studied brevity to the utmost, my object always having been, to offer the pith of the whole subject in the smallest possi- * Except the experiments on the sounds, published in the Appendix to the previous edition, in April, 1835, *