Excerpt from Heart Affections: Their Recognition and Treatment This is a treatise that deals with the heart and its affections - a book that does not presuppose a knowl edge of the subject and that strives to encompass in small volume sufficient fundamentals of anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment to give the busy physician a working knowledge of the more recent advances in studies of the heart. Contact with medical men in civil life has taught me the need Of a fundamental volume on the heart, as have also requests of medical students. Physicians engaged in military work at American training camps and abroad have voiced a similar sentiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.