1780 DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. An an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases.
Includes the first description of the value of digitalis in the treatment of patients with heart failure, with discussion of several successful cases. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Darwin and Withe…
GMN 8589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10766
1799 FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.
"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it…
GMN 11592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13791
1806 CORVISART DES MAREST, Jean Nicolas (1755 – 1821)
Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux.
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.…
GMN 2737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4558
1817 ROSTAN, Léon (1790 – 1866)
Mémoire sur cette question de l’asthme des vieillards: est-il une affection nerveuse?
Rostan gave an early description of cardiac (“Rostan’s”) asthma.
GMN 2744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4601
1832 HOPE, James (1801 – 1841)
A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels.
Hope did much to advance the knowledge of heart murmurs, valvular disease, and aneurysm; he described the second sound of the left side of the sternum in mitral stenosis as “altered” – losing its short, flat clear sou…
GMN 2747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4618
1888 ROY, Charles Smart (1854 – 1897); ADAMI, John George (1862 – 1926)
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.
GMN 2793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3405
1889 MACWILLIAM, John Alexander (1857 – 1937)
Cardiac failure and sudden death from ventricular fibrillation.
First description of a case of death from ventricular fibrillation.
GMN 2797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3417
1920 SAXL, Paul (1880 – 1932)
Verhandlungen ärtzlicher Gesellschaften und Kongressberichte.
Saxl injected a mercurial compound (Novasurol), a powerful diuretic, for the treatment of cardiac failure.
GMN 2853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3635
1935 HARRISON, Tinsley Randolph (1900 – 1978)
Failure of the circulation.
GMN 11608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13808
1941 SCHROEDER, Henry Alfred (1906 – 1975)
Studies on congestive heart failure. I. The importance of restriction of salt as compared to water.
Low-sodium diet in heart failure.
GMN 2873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4196
1980 JARCHO, Saul Wallenstein (1906 – 2000)
The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Alberti.
Translations of extensive selections from 19 famous and/or obscure works, with commentary and summary.
GMN 3161.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4109
