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STOKES, WILLIAM. The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta. xvi, 689 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 222x141 mm, original blue-green cloth blocked in blind, moderate wear, hinges cracked; contents clean. Stamp of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen. Dublin: Hodges and Smith [and Edinburgh: MacLachlan & Stewart], 1854
first edition; issue with Edinburgh publisher's spine imprint. "Stokes's textbook on cardiology contains his classic description of 'Cheyne-Stokes respiration,' a type of periodic breathing described by John Cheyne in 1818, which Stokes was the first to associate with fatty degeneration of the heart. The work also includes the first description of paroxysmal tachycardia, and is remarkable for its accurate depictions of pericarditis, valvular diseases, and the weakening of the heart in typhus fever"--Norman 2024. Bedford 280; Garrison-Morton 2760.
