Essai sur les Maladies et les lésions organiques du Coeur et des gros vaisseaux; extrait des Lecons cliniques de J.N. Corvisart, premier médecin de LL. MM. ., publié, sous ses yeux, par C.E. Horeau, .

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Paris, de l' imprimerie de Migneret, 1806, 8°, (IX), X-LVI, 484 pp., 1 fl. (Errata), feiner Halbledereinband der Zeit mit reichlicher Rückenvergoldung; minimal fleckig. First Edition! "In this great classic of cardiac literature" (Heirs) Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marets ( 1755-1821) "differentiated between cardiac and pulmonary diseases, provided the first adequate classification of the symptoms of heart disease, distinguished between functional and organic disturbances of the heart, and was the first to divide the course of heart failure into three stages. He dealt with the pathology of the pericardial sac and the muscular and fibrous tissues of the heart, gave the first description of carditis, and pointed out the relationship between valvular lesions and the development of heart failure." Norman "His Essai was the first treatise on heart disease to conform to the pattern of a text-book and deal systematically with pericarditis, myocardial disease, carditis and aneuyrsm." "A long and remarkable study on diseases of the heart constituted his magnum opus and can legitimately be considered the first treatise on cardiology" was edited by C. E. Horeau from notes based upon Corvisart's course of clinical lectures. Corvisart, the teacher of Laennec and translator of Auenbrugger, was the favorite physician of Napoleon Bonaparte to whom he dedicated this book. See - Willius Dry pp.107-108; Willius Key pp.279-280; East, Story of Heart Disease, p.61; Leibowitz, Hist. of coronary heart disease, p.83, p.165; DSB III, pp.426-428 Garrison & Morton No.2737; Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1126; Norman: 518; Lilly Library, p. 159; Waller N. 2149; Bedford No. 360. Seller Inventory # 47104

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