A founding surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital sets down ten detailed cases of heart disease from early nineteenth-century Boston, beginning with the late governor of the commonwealth, whose epilepsy, breathlessness and decline are traced stage by stage. Warren then draws the symptoms together, from palpitation and dropsy to delirium, and adds a case of hydrothorax.
A document of American medicine before the stethoscope, for historians of medicine; its treatments are long obsolete. Download the free EPUB.