Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1126

JEAN NICOLAS CORVISART DES MARETS (1755-1821) Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux. Migneret 1806 lvi, 484 pp. 19.7 cm.

In this great classic of cardiac literature, Corvisart for the first time so ordered the symptomatology of heart disease that differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disease was made possible. He distinguished between cardiac hypertrophy and dilatation, he divided the clinical course of cardiac failure into three phases, and he showed the relationship between cause and effect in valvular disease and cardiac failure. Corvisart was personal physician to Napoleon and enjoyed a close and loyal relationship with him.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2737; Waller 2149

Gift of John Martin, M.D.