Practical observations on nervous and sympathetic palpitation of the heart, as well as on palpitation the result of organic disease / by John Calthrop Williams.

  • Williams, John Calthrop, 1801-1856.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Practical observations on nervous and sympathetic palpitation of the heart, as well as on palpitation the result of organic disease / by John Calthrop Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. I SHOULD scarcely have thought it necessary to write a preface, had it not been customary to find one in every book ; because under the head of PreHminary Observations, much is included which might make a preface. The Observations contained in the first edition of the present work, formed the substance of a portion of my Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic, delivered at the Medical School of Nottingham in 1835. The subject of func- tional diseases of the heart had not at that time at- tracted the attention which its importance merited. The value of the stethoscope as a means of dia- gnosis had not been so fully or universally ad- mitted, as it now is. Physical diagnosis was then in its infancy. Since the period to which I
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