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Historical Bibliography Updated: January 24, 2020

A case of apoplexy in which the fleshy part of the heart was converted into fat.

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Dublin Hosp. Rep. 2, 216-23. 1818 CE.

First accurate description of the condition which later became known as “Cheyne–Stokes respiration.” Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 317-20.

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