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HOPE, James (1801 – 1841)

HOPE, James (1801 – 1841)

1801 – 1841

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Thomas Phillips · Art UK · Public domain

1832 CE

#2747

A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels.

Hope did much to advance the knowledge of heart murmurs, valvular disease, and aneurysm; he described the second sound of the left side of the sternum in mitral stenosis as “altered” – losing its sho…

1834 CE

#2289

Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy.

Hope left a fine pathological atlas with brilliantly hand-coloured lithographs from his own drawings. While the book does not equal the atlases of Cruveilhier and Carswell, it is important as being a great stimulus to…