Excerpt from Diseases of the Heart A vast amount of clinical and experimental work still remains to be done to explain the variable changes in the heart's action due to disease, and my explanations can, consequently, only be tentative. Should other investigators prove these interpretations wrong: by the discovery of new facts, I shall rejoice with them, for they will have shed fresh light, and will have reached a plane higher than I have been able to attain. 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.