Details
STOKES, William (1804-1878). The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1854.
8o (223 x 139 mm). Original brown cloth (rebacked preserving original spine, front hinge cracked with first 2 gatherings becoming loose).
Provenance: Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), surgeon and lecturer who gave the first systematic account of the diagnosis and treatment of pain and paralysis in the absence of local organic disease (presentation inscription from the author on the half-title: "To Sir Benjamin Brodie Bart. with the authors best wishes and unfeigned respect"); Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, of Stokes's textbook on cardiology, containing his classic account of fatty degeneration of the heart, "in which he so well described the periodic form of respiration now known as 'Cheyne-Stokes breathing'" (Garrison-Morton). This type of periodic breathing was first described by John Cheyne in 1818, but it was Stokes who first associated it with fatty degeneration of the heart. The book also contains the first description of paroxysmal tachycardia (on p. 161). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Garrison-Morton 2760; Willius-Dry, pp. 134-35; Willius-Keys, pp. 459-89; Norman 2024.
8
Provenance: Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), surgeon and lecturer who gave the first systematic account of the diagnosis and treatment of pain and paralysis in the absence of local organic disease (presentation inscription from the author on the half-title: "To Sir Benjamin Brodie Bart. with the authors best wishes and unfeigned respect"); Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, of Stokes's textbook on cardiology, containing his classic account of fatty degeneration of the heart, "in which he so well described the periodic form of respiration now known as 'Cheyne-Stokes breathing'" (Garrison-Morton). This type of periodic breathing was first described by John Cheyne in 1818, but it was Stokes who first associated it with fatty degeneration of the heart. The book also contains the first description of paroxysmal tachycardia (on p. 161). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Garrison-Morton 2760; Willius-Dry, pp. 134-35; Willius-Keys, pp. 459-89; Norman 2024.