Volume 1

Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart; on aneurism of the thoracic aorta; on preternatural pulsation in the epigastric region: and on the unusual origin and distribution of some of the large arteries. Of the human body / [Allan Burns].

  • Burns, Allan, 1781-1813.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart; on aneurism of the thoracic aorta; on preternatural pulsation in the epigastric region: and on the unusual origin and distribution of some of the large arteries. Of the human body / [Allan Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is highly requisite that the practitioner should know their nature and symptoms, as far as these can be explained in the present impertect staté of our acquaintance with this class of mor- bid affections. e OBSERVATIONS ON UNIFORM ENLARGEMENT, AND ON DILATATION OF THE HEART. Di aTATion, either general or partial, is one of the most frequent, and at the same time, one of the simplest diseases to which the heart is subjected. Frequent however as dilatation is, and easily as it is discovered by dissection, it does not appear that it had been distinctly no- ticed before the time of the illustrious Vesalius. No age nor sex would seem to be exempt from this affection, yet it appears more frequently among those advanced in years, than in young people. It is difficult to ascertain by dissection many of the diseased conditions of the heart, but dilatation is apparent even to a superficial observer. In general, the human heart does not weigh above a few ounces, but by disease, its weight is sometimes enormously increased,