An essay on the organic diseases and lesions of the heart and great vessels / from the clinical lectures of J. N. Corvisart ... ; published, under his inspection, by C. E. Horeau ... ; translated from the French, with notes, by Jacob Gates.

  • Corvisart des Marets, Jean Nicolas, Baron, 1755-1821.
Date:
1812
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Credit: An essay on the organic diseases and lesions of the heart and great vessels / from the clinical lectures of J. N. Corvisart ... ; published, under his inspection, by C. E. Horeau ... ; translated from the French, with notes, by Jacob Gates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Professor Corvtsart would long ago have pub- lished a work on the present subject, if he could have found leisure for the purpose. Wearied, in fine, with many vain attempts, the professor desired to associate me in his labour, and accordingly engaged me to me- thodise, under his inspection, the following essay from his lectures. The necessity of doing it appeared to him the more imperious, as, while he was deferring, without forgetting his project, numerous pupils possessed his observations or appropriated his ideas to themselves. Some have done it by rendering to this celebrated professor the just tribute of applause and gratitude, which they owed to his laborious and useful lectures ; but many others, with- out quoting him, have published on these diseases, facts, opinions, considerations, and fragments of a doctrine which are entirely his own. Such plagiarisms, of which the professor has long been conscious, have often induced him to make, in his lectures, the poignant application of this passage : Divi- serant sibi vestimenta tnea, et super vestem meam mise- runt sortem. In short, if we attend to whatever has been either bor- rowed or stolen from him, we shall find some scattered o