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Historical Bibliography Updated: January 24, 2020

The diseases of the heart and aorta.

Publication Details

Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1854 CE.

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 also gave the first description of paroxysmal tachycardia (p. 161).

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Entry Number#2760
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/4678
External URLthe-diseases-of-the-heart-and-aorta

Geographic Context

Publication place: Dublin