Practical manual of the diseases of the heart and great vessels ... / By F.A. Aran ... Translated from the French, by Wm. A. Harris, M.D.

  • Aran, F. A. (François Amilcar), 1817-1861.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Practical manual of the diseases of the heart and great vessels ... / By F.A. Aran ... Translated from the French, by Wm. A. Harris, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. NotTWwITHSTANDING the publication of many valu- able treatises on the diseases of the heart, their study is generally neglected. The unfounded skepticism which still exists in the minds of many physicians, on the possibility of recognising and curing these diseases, and, espe- cially, the differences of opinion among authors re- specting them, have, in no slight degree, contributed to cast disfavour on this useful branch of medicine. Struck with these differences when we began to devote ourselves to the study of cardiac diseases, it seemed to us, that the best means of acquiring a just idea of the whole subject would be, to com- | bine all the materials furnished by authors, and to test by clinical observation the truth of their statements. This is the undertaking, these are the investiga- tions in which we engaged, for our own satisfaction