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CASES

iijIjUstrative of

DISEASES OF THE HEART.

BY THOMAS JEFFREYS, M. D.

JLIVERPOOL.

In the course of a practice of twenty-five years, I have been in the habit of taking notes of all cases of importance. These notes were taken at the time of the attendance, and observations were afterwards added to them, which arose from a careful collation of any series, bearing on the same views, in pathology or practice.

To communicate, from time to time, such of these series as are calculated to throw light, however small, upon the obscurities of our difficult art, I trust will be considered of some service to our profession.

The first series of cases I shall notice, with a view to show what extensive organic disease may exist in the Heart itself, without a fatal termination: the second, what obscure diagnostics we often have, when the most formidable consequences may be expected: and the third, what powerful symptoms of heart disease may exist which may be purely symptomatic, and consequently from which no danger may either exist.