Excerpt from An Essay on the Organic Diseases and Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels Anatomy alone, aided by an exact acquaintance with the action of the parts and phenomena of an organic lesion, can elucidate this complicated subject, by opening the dead before their interment. 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.