Norman: "The first edition of Corvisart's treatise on heart disease was written by C. E. Horeau from notes based upon Corvisart's course of clinical lectures given at the Charité Hospital in Paris: later editions were written by Corvisart himself."
Heirs of Hippocrates: "In this great classic of cardiac literature, Corvisart for the first time so ordered the symptomatology 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 relationshop between cause and effect in valvular disease and cardiac failure. Corvisart was personal physician to Napoleon and enjoyed a close and loyal relationship with him."