The Ars Sphygmica or ancient science of the pulse dates back into antiquity to long before
Galen's time. It is probable that Chinese and Hindu physicians were skilled in feeling the …

Slit patency of the foramen ovale (to probe or even to pencil) is a commonplace in a normal
atrial septum. As it should close during the first year of life, the patent foramen ovale is …

The anatomical varieties of atrial septal defect are described and their clinical diagnosis is
discussed on the basis of experience in investigating a series of 300 subjects and of …

The selection of patients who need surgical treatment for mitral stenosis is a problem which
is no longer confined to special centres for cardiac surgery. If patients who are in greatest …

It has long been known that ligation of a coronary artery in animals may provoke
disturbances of the heart rhythm (see Lewis13), and it is now common knowledge that …

An increased resistance to the pulmonary circulation in chronic lung disease has long been
known as a cause of right ventricular enlargement, and Graham Steell (1888) described …

The term" hydrothorax" was applied to clear, non-purulent, pleural effusions before
percussion and auscultation were practised and before the signs of heart disease were …

During the last fifteen years we have observed a number of patients in whom there was a
pulsating vascular swelling at the right side of the root of the neck which at first sight …

Of the various pathological causes of pulmonary endarteritis and right heart failure,
schistosomiasis is probably the least familiar outside Egypt and other countries where the …

FIG. 2 Title page of the Inventum Novum from Neuberger's facsimile edition. duced the
percussion hammer for use with the pleximeter so that three methods of percussion were …