The Battle Against Heart Disease

A Physician Traces the History of Man's Achievements in this Field for the General Reader

P. E. Baldry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10315-2 (ISBN)

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Operations on the heart and the prevalence of coronary thrombosis are widely discussed in newspapers and magazines; the importance of this book is that by simple and accurate information it enables the layman as well as doctors to understand the disturbances produced by disease and how they may be corrected or avoided. By discussing our methods against the background of their gradual evolution throughout history the reader is enabled to view the advances of the day in their proper perspective and to appreciate our indebtedness to the work of doctors and scientists in past centuries. It is stressed that the magnificent achievements of present-day surgeons must not be allowed to detract from the very important though less spectacular advances which have been made both in the medical treatment and prevention of heart disease. This book describes, in historical sequence, the progress in understanding the heart's action, the diagnosis of its disorders and their treatment from the time of Hippocrates to the second half of the twentieth century.

1. Preliminary reconnaissance by the early Greeks; 2. Reappraisal during the Renaissance; 3. The circulation discovered; 4. Respiration and its purpose; 5. The structure and function of the heart; 6. Simultaneous attack on the joints and the heart; 7. The foxglove as a therapeutic weapon; 8. 'Tapping and listening; 9. The use and misuse of the stethoscope; 10. The generation of electricity in the heart; 11. Disorders of rate and rhythm; 12. The lifeline threatened; 13. Preventing and combating 'heart attacks'; 14. The heart under pressure; 15. Invasion of the heart by bacteria; 16. Pump failure; 17. Congenital heart disease; 18. The triumphs of surgery.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2009
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-521-10315-0 / 0521103150
ISBN-13	978-0-521-10315-2 / 9780521103152
Zustand	Neuware