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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    adopted this order mostly for the purpose of facilitating a satisfactory distribution of the materials which I had to treat,* and which will be arranged in five classes. 1st. The first will treat of the membranous envelopes of the heart. 2d. The second will comprise those of its muscular substance. 3d. The third will explain the lesions of the tendinous or fibrous tissue. 4th. The fourth will embrace the affections which involve the different tissues, and the preternatural states which are considered as diseases of this organ. 5th. The fifth will give a brief account of the aneu- risms of the aorta. In fine, the work will be concluded by corollaries in which I shall speak of the causes, signs, progress, prognosis, treatment of the diseases of the heart, and of the means of distinguishing them from the affections with which they have been confounded, &x. Very far from wishing to make a compilation, I first designed to insert, in this work only the observations peculiar to Profess. Corvisart ; but to leave nothing to be desired as to the known diseases of the heart, there will be found at the end of each class, an appendix,, where the diseases of the heart, which he has not ob- served, and which have been inspected by other authors, will be described agreeably to the method which will be followed in the course of this essay. * One of the inconveniences which this distribution involves, is the impossi- bility, when following it, of treating in the same class, of pericarditis, and carditis ,- it is clear that a classification which requires a separation of these two diseaies must be imperfect.