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