A treatise on the diseases of the heart, and great vessels / by R.J. Bertin ; edited by J. Bouillaud ; translated from the French, by Charles W. Chauncy.

Date:
1833
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    it be LaenneC; who is too critical and positive for re- ference respecting the actual progress of any parti- cular disease of that organ. In fact^ it can scarcely be said that we are in possession of any complete and perfect history of the diseases of the heart. The French pathologists have prepared the way for a more thorough and satisfactory investigation of this class of diseases; and the plan devised by Bertin is^ perhaps, better calculated to attain the object which has been I proposed than any other. Corvisart was the first who understood the proper method of studying these diseases: the present author, however, was a pupil of Corvisart, and not only had the advantage of his dis- coveries, but of the generally improved state of me- dical science among his cotemporaries. Armstrong, Farr and Abercrombie, have done much in this de- partment of medical inquiry; but Cruveilhier, Lermi- nier, Andral, Louis and Bouillaud, have effected much more. Bertin deserves to be ranked in this class of authors. His classification is anatomically correct, and he has investigated the diseases of the appropri- ate textures of that organ so accurately, that it is hardly possible to conceive of a case for which we may not find a parallel in the present work. It is somewhat singular that among the numerous translations and original works which have issued of late years from the American press, no work has as yet appeared which can justly be entitled to be con-