Entry Nos. 2700–2799
99 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1837 CE
#2750
Akute idiopathische Herzentzündung. In his: Praktische Diagnostik, pp. 118-20
Sobernheim first used the term “myocarditis.”
1839 CE
#2751
Traité pratique des maladies du coeur.
1842 CE
#2752
Observations on the diseases of the orifice and valves of the aorta.
First clear account of chronic constrictive pericarditis.
1843 CE
#2753
Account of observations… on patients whose urine was albuminous.
An early description of a case of subacute bacterial endocarditis is reported on pp. 227-32 (Case 8).
1843 CE
#2754
Mémoire sur les signes stethoscopiques du rétrécissement de l’orifice auriculo-ventriculaire gauches du coeur.
First description of the presystolic murmur in mitral stenosis. Partial English translation in No. 2241.
1844 CE
#2755
Observation d’hydropneumopéricarde accompagnée d’un bruit de fluctuation perceptible à l’oreille.
First adequate description of pneumopericardium.
1846 CE
#2756
Observations on some cases of permanently slow pulse.
Stokes’s celebrated account of heart block with syncopal attacks – the Stokes–Adams syndrome (see also No. 2745). Stokes was most interested in the diagnostic value of this condition. The paper is re…
1851 CE
#2757
A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart, including the principles of physical diagnosis.
Walshe, physician to University College Hospital, London, was one of the first to recognize the presystolic character of the direct mitral murmur in mitral stenosis.
1852 CE
#2758
On some of the principal effects resulting from the detachment of fibrinous deposits from the interior of the heart, and their mixture with the circulating blood.
A classic description of embolism resulting from intracardiac coagula. Reprinted in Willius & Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 474-82.
1854 CE
#2759
Die bildliche Darstellung des menschlichen Arterienpulses.
Vierordt invented a sphygmograph which acted on the principle that indirect estimation of blood-pressure could be accomplished by measuring the counter-pressure necessary to obliterate the arterial pulsation. This was…
1854 CE
#2760
The diseases of the heart and aorta.
On pp. 320-27 is to be found Stokes’s account of fatty degeneration of the heart, in which he so well described the periodic form of respiration now known as “Cheyne–Stokes breathing.” Stokes a…
1858 CE
#2761
On malformations, etc., of the human heart.
Includes an account of the “tetralogy of Fallot” (see No. 2792). Peacock’s book was “the first comprehensive study covering the whole field” (Maude Abbott). Reprinted, Boston, Mass., 1973.
1861 CE
#2762
Du double souffle intermittent crural, comme signe de l’insuffisance aortique.
The double intermittent murmur over the femoral arteries, diagnostic of aortic insufficiency, has become known as “Duroziez’s sign.” Partial English translation in No. 2241.
1861 CE
#2763
Short account of cardiac murmurs.
The murmur which Fauvel (No. 2754) had called “presystolic” was described by Gairdner, who called it “auricular-systolic.” This paper is important as being largely responsible for the recogniti…
1862 CE
#2764
On cardiac murmurs.
First description of the “Austin Flint murmur,” present at the apex beat in aortic regurgitation. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 864-900.
1867 CE
#2765
Krankheiten des Herzens. 2te. Aufl.
First appeared in Virchow’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, Erlangen, 1854, 5, 1 Abt., 385-530.
1867 CE
#2766
Des mouvements et des bruits qui se passent dans les veines jugulaires.
Classic account of the movements and murmurs in the jugular veins, important in the diagnosis of heart diseases. Potain’s writings were models of clarity and style. A translation of this paper is to be found in …
1869 CE
#2767
Mycosis endocardii.
Winge first suggested that endocarditis was due to microbial infection. A translation of part of his paper is in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 472.
1870 CE
#2768
On the etiology and prevalence of diseases of the heart among soldiers.
First description of “Da Costa’s syndrome” – the “effort syndrome” of Sir Thomas Lewis.
1870 CE
#2769
Capillary embolism or arterial pyaemia.
One of the first accounts of bacterial endocarditis was given by Wilks, who, in his classic paper on the subject, called the condition “arterial pyaemia.” Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 194…
1871 CE
#2770
On irritable heart; a clinical study of a form of functional cardiac disorder and its consequences.
“Da Costa’s syndrome.” This was first described by Myers (No. 2768) and is now known as “effort syndrome,” “soldier’s heart,” “disordered action of the heart.&rdqu…
1871 CE
#2771
On the murmurs attendant on mitral contraction.
Important and exhaustive account of the knowledge of presystolic murmurs. Fagge’s paper also includes many clinical observations relating to the rhythm of heart murmurs and the state of the sounds of the heart i…
1872 CE
#2772
Cases of partial and general idiopathic pericarditis.
Pericarditis epistenocardiaca described.
1872 CE
#2773
Ueber zwei seltene Herzaffektionen, mit Bezugnahme auf die Theorie des ersten Herztons.
“Bamberger’s disease” (Pick’s disease, No. 2803).
1872 CE
#2774
Ein Fall von Endocarditis ulcerosa puerperalis mit Pilzbildungen im Herzen (Mycosis endocardii).
Heiberg suggested the microbic nature of endocarditis. He described what appeared to him to be the mycelia of Leptothrix in the vegetations of a case of ulcerative endocarditis.
1872 CE
#2775
Ein Fall von Pulsus bigeminus nebst Bemerkungen über die Leberschwellungen bei Klappenfehlern und über acute Leberatrophie.
First clear description of pulsus bigeminus. Translated in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 590-99.
1873 CE
#2776
Ueber schwielige Mediastino-Pericarditis und den paradoxen Puls.
Kussmaul introduced the concept of the “paradoxical pulse.”
1876 CE
#2777
Du rhythme cardiaque appelé bruit de galop, de son mécanisme et de sa valeur séméiologique.
Analysis of “gallop rhythm.” Partial English translation in No. 2241 and No. 3160.1.
1875 CE
#2778
Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.
Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.
1876 CE
#2779
Clinical lectures on diseases of the heart and aorta.
Includes “Balfour’s test” to ascertain whether the heart is still active, in cases of apparent death.
1877 CE
#2780
Du rétrécissement mitral pur.
First description of congenital mitral stenosis, “Duroziez’s disease.”
1878 CE
#2781
Ein Fall von thrombotischen Verschlusse einer der Kranzarterien des Herzens.
First description of coronary thrombosis with diagnosis before death. English translation of original report, Amer. J. Cardiol, 1978, 42, 849-52.
1879 CE
#2782
Recherches cliniques sur la communication congénitales des deux coeurs par inocclusion du septum intervenniculare.
Roger drew attention to an important anomaly of the septum, interventricular patency (“maladie de Roger”), demonstrating the presence of a murmur in this condition. This is sometimes called “Roger&rs…
1880 CE
#2783
Ueber die pathologische Gerinnungs-Vorgänge.
First description (p. 106) of myocardial infarction. Leibowitz called this "the most significant contribution by a pathologist to the history of coronary heart disease." He also wrote, "This work not only provides a g…
1881 CE
#2784
Ueber die Messung des Blutdrucks am Menschen.
Basch’s important modifications of the methods of blood-pressure recording mark the beginning of clinical sphygmomanometry. English translation in Ruskin (No. 3160.1).
1881 CE
#2785
Sulla poliorromennite scrofolosa, otisi delle sierose.
“Concato’s disease” – inflammation of the serous membranes. Involvement of the pericardium was later described by Pick (No. 2803).
1882 CE
#2786
Ueber Fettherz.
Fatty infiltration of the heart first described.
1883 CE
#2788
Traité clinique des maladies du coeur et de la crosse de l’aorte.
1883 CE
#2789
Diagnostic et traitement des maladies du coeur.
English translation, 1884.
1885 CE
#2790
The Gulstonian Lectures, on malignant endocarditis.
First comprehensive description of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
1887 CE
#2791
Fibrillar contraction of the heart.
MacWilliam discovered that fibrillar contraction of the heart is due to “a rapid succession of incoordinated peristaltic contractions.” He clearly described auricular and ventricular fibrillation, and show…
1888 CE
#2792
Contribution à l’anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleu (cyanose cardiaque).
The “tetralogy of Fallot.” He gave an important, but not the first, account of this condition (see Nos. 2726.1 & 2761). Abstract translation in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 689-90.
1888 CE
#2793
Remarks on failure of the heart from overstrain.
Important experimental work on cardiac overstrain was carried out by Roy and Adami who considered that mechanical overstrain caused chronic thickening of the cardiac valves.
1888 CE–1889 CE
#2794
The murmur of high-pressure in the pulmonary artery.
First description of the pulmonary diastolic murmur – the “Graham Steell murmur.” Reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, 1941, pp. 680-85.
1889 CE
#2795
De la tachycardie essentielle paroxystique.
Bouveret introduced the term “Paroxysmal tachycardia”. Partial English translation in No. 2241.
1889 CE
#2796
Maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux.
In his important monograph on disorders of the cardiovascular system, Huchard was apparently the first to use the designation “Stokes–Adams disease”.
1889 CE
#2797
Cardiac failure and sudden death from ventricular fibrillation.
First description of a case of death from ventricular fibrillation.
1889 CE
#2798
Du sphygmomanomètre et de la mésure de la pression artérielle chez l’homme à l’état normale et pathologique.
Potain devised a simple portable air sphygmomanometer for blood-pressure estimation.
1893 CE–1897 CE
#2799