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Edited by Frederick Willius, M.D., Chief of the Section of Cardiology, the Mayo Clinic; Professor of Medicine, the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, the Graduate School, the University of Minnesota; and Thomas E. Keys, M.A., Reference Librarian, the Mayo Clinic, formerly Carnegie Fellow, the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago. Price, $10. Pp. 558, with illustrations. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, 1941.

Arch Intern Med. 1942;69(3):548.

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This volume contains a well chosen collection of the classic contributions to medical science on which present day knowledge of heart disease is based. It begins most appropriately with Harvey's "An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals." This is just as it should be, for with this work of Harvey's begins the history of the study of heart disease, and it is on the foundation furnished by this work that most of the knowledge of heart disease is based. There follows a series of fifty-one articles by the men who, from Harvey to James B. Herrick, have contributed the most important building blocks which go to form the present structure.

Unlike some personally conducted tours, during which only a glimpse is given of the points of interest, in this collection the articles are reprinted in their entirety. This adds a great deal to the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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