1809 BURNS, Allan (1781 – 1813)
Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart.
Burns described endocarditis and reported three cases of mitral stenosis. He recognized the thrill present in the latter condition and seems to have understood the mechanism of a cardiac murmur. He also described unil…
GMN 2738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8654
1824 AUENBRUGGER, Leopold (1722 – 1809); FORBES, Sir John (1788 – 1861)
Original cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest: Also commentaries on the same subjects selected and translated from Auenbrugger, Corvisart, Laennec and others
This is the earliest English work on the stethoscope. It "includes the first English translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion, selected sections from Laennec's book on auscultation, and detailed reports from 39…
GMN 11599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13798
1843 FAUVEL, Sulpice Antoine (1813 – 1884)
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.
GMN 2754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4647
1851 WALSHE, Walter Hayle (1812 – 1892)
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.
GMN 2757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4661
1861 DUROZIEZ, Paul Louis (1826 – 1897)
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.
GMN 2762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4685
1861 GAIRDNER, Sir William Tennant (1824 – 1907)
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 recognition in Britain of the pre…
GMN 2763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4687
1862 FLINT (ELDER), Austin (1812 – 1886)
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.
GMN 2764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4689
1871 FAGGE, Charles Hilton (1838 – 1883)
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 in 67 c…
GMN 2771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4711
1879 ROGER, Henri-Louis (1809 – 1891)
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’s murmur”, although …
GMN 2782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3376
1888 –1889 STEELL, Graham (1851 – 1942)
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.
GMN 2794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3408
1906 KRILOFF, Dmitri Dmitrievich (1879 – )
[In Russian:] Estimation of blood-pressure by Korotkov’s auditory method.
Kriloff made extensive observations on the sounds which Korotkov had shown to be emitted by the blood after removal of the Riva-Rocci air-pressure cuff during the blood-pressure measurement.
GMN 2823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3528
1907 FELLNER, Bruno
Neuerung zur Messung des systolischen und diastolischen Druckes.
Fellner suggested the use of the stethoscope in the measurement of systolic and diastolic pressure.
GMN 2825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3534
1958 MCKUSICK, Victor Almon (1921 – 2008)
Cardiovascular sound in health and disease. Being a comprehensive treatise, introduced by a historical survey, illustrated mainly by sound spectrograms (spectral phonocardiograms) and supplemented by an extensive bibliography. With a section on respiratory sound.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11543 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13742
1998 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826); DUFFIN, Jacalyn Mary (1950 – )
The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec
"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise on Med…
GMN 13599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15878
