Atlas of congenital cardiac disease / by Maude E. Abbott.

  • Abbott, Maude E. (Maude Elizabeth), 1869-1940.
Date:
1936
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Credit: Atlas of congenital cardiac disease / by Maude E. Abbott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gist to the Montreal General Hospital and housed at that time under her care in the Museum, that led Sir William, in 1905, to extend to her the invitation to write a section on Congenital Cardiac Disease in his new System of Modern Medicine. He himself suggested that the subject might be treated “statistically” and the first edition of this monograph accordingly contained a chart of 412 cases of congenital heart disease with autopsies analyzed from the literature. Fully one-third of these were drawn from the Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, that goldmine of early clinico-patho- logical observation, and Vierordt’s great monograph, which had appeared shortly before this and was actually the first which had handled the subject from the statis¬ tical standpoint, was used as a guide and sourcebook throughout. Dr. Osier received the proof of the first edition of this monograph at his home in Oxford in January, 1908. With his characteristic generosity toward younger workers, and with the insight that impelled him to the instant recognition of what he believed to be a contri¬ bution of scientific merit, he immediately sent off a letter to the writer expressing his warm approval of its contents. In the second edition of Osier and McCrae’s System, which appeared in 1915, the number of cases analyzed by the writer was raised to 631, and in its third edition published in 1927, there were 850 cases analyzed. In 1924 another monograph by the writer on the Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease appeared, and in 1928, one on the diagnosis of this condition (Part 1 with Dr. E. Weiss), and finally in 1932, in Nelson’s Loose-leaf Medicine, a fourth, containing a review of the recent literature on this subject from the publication of the third edition of Osier and McCrae’s System in 1927 to that date, with a chart of 1,000 cases analyzed (republished here by kind permission of Thomas Nelson & Sons). Finally, the Atlas here published is merely preliminary to a larger volume on congenital heart disease which the author has under preparation. In its objective presentation of the individual cases studied, it has, we believe, a supple¬ mentary function of real value, which only a publication of this type can adequately fulfill. The writer’s sincerest thanks are expressed to the American Heart Association for their valuable support in their publication of this Atlas and especially to Dr. H. M. Marvin, Executive Chairman, and Miss Gertrude Wood, Office Secretary, for their courtesy and coopera¬ tion ; to Dr. Paul White and his staff and the many other contributors who have placed their unpublished cases so freely at the writer’s disposal for publication here; to Mr. Lucius N. Littauer of the Littauer Foundation for financial support kindly given for the preparation for publication of the writer’s researches in this field; and to Dr. Maurice Kugel for his generous action in the same regard; to Messrs. Lea and Febiger and the other publishers and the medical artists mentioned in the text, whose original drawings and fine reproductions embellish these pages; to Dr. David Seecof of the Jewish Hospital of Montreal for kind assistance in the photographic and other preliminary work incidental to the inception of this Atlas and to Dr. Otto Kruger for his valuable help in the construction of the plates; and, last but not least, to the writer’s efficient secretary, Miss Edna F. Graham, with whose help and faithful coopera¬ tion this Atlas and the exhibits upon which it is based have attained their present adequate form. Maude E. Abbott. Montreal, Canada. July 15, 1936.