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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

CORVISART DES MAREST, Jean Nicolas (1755 – 1821)

1755 – 1821

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1806

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Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux.

CORVISART DES MAREST, Jean Nicolas (1755 – 1821)

Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. He was first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dyspnoea of effort.…