A case of simple hypertrophy of the heart : illustrating former and modern practice, with remarks / by Sir Risdon Bennett.

  • Bennett, James Risdon, 1809-1891.
Date:
[1890?]
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Credit: A case of simple hypertrophy of the heart : illustrating former and modern practice, with remarks / by Sir Risdon Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from Vol. XVIII of' St. Thomas's Hospital Reports.'] A CASE OF SIMPLE HYPERTROPHY OF THE HEA^ ILLUSTRATING FORMER AND MODERN PRACTIC WITH REMARKS. By SIR RISDON BENNETT, M.D., LL.D., F Among my notes of practice in former years I have those relating to the case I am about to describe, accompanied by the patient's own record of the treatment to which she was subjected. Apart from the character and history of the case itself, it affords so remarkable an illustration of the revolu- tion that has taken place in medical practice within the last forty or fifty years as to seem deserving of being recorded. I therefore offer it to the readers of the ' St. Thomas's Hospital Reports/ in response to the editor's request that I should contribute something to the new volume. Sophia G—, who died at the age of forty-two, was an unmarried woman in humble circumstances, a dressmaker. In mental culture and character she was far above her station in life, and was well known to many kind people who took an interest in her as an industrious well-conducted Christian woman. I mention this because the details I have to give are obtained from her own record, as given in the MS. book