DA COSTA, Jacob Mendes (1833 – 1900)
1833 – 1900
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1864 CE
#11578
Medical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.
During the Civil War Da Costa was an acting surgeon in Philadelphia where he supervised a ward for patients with heart disease. In this book he presented the first description of a condition that he called "irritable …
1871 CE
#2770
On irritable heart; a clinical study of a form of functional cardiac disorder and its consequences.
“Da Costa’s syndrome.” This was first described by Myers (No. 2768) and is now known as “effort syndrome,” “soldier’s heart,” “disordered action of the heart.&rdqu…