Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1628

JAMES HOPE (1801-1841) A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels. Lea & Blanchard 1842 1st American from the 3rd London ed. xviii, 572 pp., plates (part fold.). 22.5 cm.

One of Europe's foremost authorities and teachers on morbid anatomy and heart pathology, Hope studied in London, Paris, Rome, and Florence before settling in London as a lecturer at St. George's Hospital. Hope was able to synthesize the work of his predecessors with his own observations, and his writings reflect a wealth of bedside experience, His Treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels was first published in 1831, but it was extensively revised before this first American edition appeared. Included in the work are some of the finest clinical descriptions of valvular defects ever written.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2747 (1st ed., 1831); Wellcome III, p. 298 (1832 ed.)