In the preparation of this volume, the aim has been to meet the wants of the medical student
and practitioner by the production of a work devoted exclusively to diseases of the heart, and …

THE most characteristic feature of Sir James Mackenzie's later teaching is its insistence
upon the necessity of a proper study of function. The gradual development of this conception …

SOME years ago, I published a small volume containing lectures which I had given at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, with the view of assisting the studies of those who seek the …

The cases on which the following observations are based, amounted to 185, of which 72
belonged to the first class, and 113 to the last; and of these latter, 37 were aortic, 25 mitral …

THIS book is, for the most part, a reproduction of lectures on" Prognosis in Valvular Disease
of the Heart," delivered before the Harveian Society in 1884, and of the Lumleian Lectures at …

IN the preparation of this work it has been my object to give a faithful reflection of the state of
medical science and art at the close of the present century. While attempting to reach an …

The addition of one third of new matter to the present volume, and the care with which the
whole has been revised and corrected, will, I trust, sufficiently prove my respect for the …

The addition of one third of new matter to the present volume, and the care with which the
whole has been revised and corrected, will, I trust, sufficiently prove my respect for the …

In making my preparations for the publication of an eighth edition of my" Treatise on
Pathological Anatomy," I hesitated for a long time in regard to what method of revision I …

THE contents of this book were prepared as lectures to be delivered to the post-graduate
students and workers at the Cardiac Department of the London Hospital. The outbreak of the …