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CORVISART DES MARETS, Jean Nicolas (1755-1821). Essai sur les maladies et les lsions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux... publi... par C. E. Horeau. Paris: Migneret, 1806.
8o (192 x 118 mm). Half-title, errata leaf at end. (Marginal tears to 23/3 and 31/1, the first just touching text, the second affecting 2 letters.) Contemporary dark green calf, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt title cartouche on smooth spine, edges red-sprinkled (one or two corners lightly scuffed, few very minor small scratches to covers); folding cloth case.
FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Corvisart's treatise on heart disease, "the first treatise on cardiology" (DSB). Because of a rash of plagiarisms by his students Corvisart decided to publish his lecture notes for a course that he had given at the Hpital de la Charit in Paris; he assigned the editing of the notes to C. E. Horeau. Later editions bearing the same title were written by Corvisart himself. "In this great classic of cardiac literature, Corvisart for the first time so ordered the symptomology of heart disease that differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disease was made possible. He distinguished between cardiac hypertrophy and dilation, he divided the clinical course of cardiac failure into three phases, and he showed the relationship between cause and effect in valvular disease and cardiac failure" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Corvisart was personal physician to Napoleon from 1801 until the Bourbon Restoration. His translation of Auenbrugger's great treatise on auscultation, published in 1808, 47 years after the first edition, led to the long overdue acceptance by the medical community of the diagnostic value of chest percussion (see Part II, lot 257). Garrison-Morton 2737; Heirs of Hippocrates 1126; Norman 518.
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FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Corvisart's treatise on heart disease, "the first treatise on cardiology" (DSB). Because of a rash of plagiarisms by his students Corvisart decided to publish his lecture notes for a course that he had given at the Hpital de la Charit in Paris; he assigned the editing of the notes to C. E. Horeau. Later editions bearing the same title were written by Corvisart himself. "In this great classic of cardiac literature, Corvisart for the first time so ordered the symptomology of heart disease that differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disease was made possible. He distinguished between cardiac hypertrophy and dilation, he divided the clinical course of cardiac failure into three phases, and he showed the relationship between cause and effect in valvular disease and cardiac failure" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Corvisart was personal physician to Napoleon from 1801 until the Bourbon Restoration. His translation of Auenbrugger's great treatise on auscultation, published in 1808, 47 years after the first edition, led to the long overdue acceptance by the medical community of the diagnostic value of chest percussion (see Part II, lot 257). Garrison-Morton 2737; Heirs of Hippocrates 1126; Norman 518.