Investigations into some morbid cardiac conditions : including the Cartwright prize essay on the heart in debility / by William Russell.

  • Russell, William, 1852-1940.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Investigations into some morbid cardiac conditions : including the Cartwright prize essay on the heart in debility / by William Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LEEDS M'r^T-mniivjn, INVESTIGATIONS INTO SOME MOBBED CAEDIAC CONDITIONS. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL INQUIRY CONCERNING INORGANIC MURMURS, ETC. IN such an inquiry as is here undertaken, it is not only necessary to state the opinions and teaching of living authorities, but also to note the birth and trace the evolu- tion of these opinions. This last is fraught with interest. It shows not only how truth but also how error originated; how the authoritative and beneficial teaching of one age may mark a great advance on the knowledge of preceding ages, and yet act as a barrier to further progress in suc- ceeding time. Until the discovery of the circulation of the blood by Harvey, the diseases of the vascular system belonged to the vast terra incognita of early medicine. With this discovery, knowledge and comprehension of the various derangements of the system grew surely though slowly. Symptoms and the more obvious signs were long the only finger-posts pointing towards diagnosis; but to the man of highly developed powers of observation and of long experience, even these acquired a diagnostic and a prog-