Excerpt from A Treatise on the Causes of Heart Disease: With Chapter on the Reason of Its Prevalence in the Army I do not presume here to investigate the entire subject of the causation of heart disease, but shall only take some of the most prominent causes of it, and endeavour to show their action in producing disturbance of the function or alterations in the structure of the heart. The diseases themselves I shall simply specify, as their symptoms and treatment are not properly embraced in the special province of this treatise. But if any point should seem to require particular notice, I may then take the liberty of transgressing its bounds, but shall not wander further than is absolutely necessary. In studying the causes of heart disease, I shall also notice under each, the cardiac lesions which most commonly result in consequence, and how they can be avoided, as my aim is to prevent disease rather than to cure it. 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.

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