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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    diseases of the heart—an increase, perhaps, in some respects, more imaginary than real. The accurate knowledge we have obtained dur- ing the last quarter of a century, of the best methods of detecting these diseases by means of percussion and the use of the stethoscope, has shown to us numbers of cases, the nature of which, without the use of these means, never could be known. Allowing, however, that diseases of the heart have increased of late years, we have a clear and important explanation of the fact. With the advance of civilization, the physical and moral system of man becomes more sensitive, and the passions thus necessarily acquire a greater influence over the animal organization; the more, also, the passions are curbed, after being once strongly excited and exercised, the more baneful is their influence on the nervous system, until they are completely subdued. For nearly fifty years Europe has been, in a greater or less degree, continually under the in- fluence of political commotion of the most excit- ing kind. In the more civilized parts, states have been changing and unsteady in their foreign and domestic policy; commerce has been of the most fluctuating and speculative character; iudi-
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