A practical treatise on the management of diseases of the heart, and of aortic aneurism, with especial reference to the treatment of those diseases in India / by Norman Chevers.

Date:
1851
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Credit: A practical treatise on the management of diseases of the heart, and of aortic aneurism, with especial reference to the treatment of those diseases in India / by Norman Chevers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The following observations form the sequel to a series of Essays on the Structure and Diseases of the Vascular System, which has been appearing in Guy's Hospital Reports and the London Medical Gazette, since the year 1840. While pre- paring, for my English readers, a condensed summary of the leading features of a system which a long and practical inves- tigation of the subject has led me to regard as most essential in the treatment of cardiac diseases, 1 have ventured to hope that an attempt to adapt those principles to the circum- stances of the inhabitants of India may not be unacceptable to my professional brethren in this country. The scantiness of the information which has been collected regarding the extent to which diseases of the heart and arte- ries in reality prevail among the Native and European inha- bitants of India, might tend to create a belief that diseases of the circulatory system are of such extreme rarity in this country