Excerpt from The Prognosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart
In the course of the ages the heart, like other organs of the body, has been viewed in a great variety of ways. In ancient times it seems to have been regarded as a sort of heel of Achilles, in that it was held to be immune to all ordinary diseases. It was not unnatural that the inability to detect cardiac abnormalities should lead to the belief that the heart itself could not become diseased. Even the great discovery of Harvey was not followed by any immediate increase in the knowledge of cardiac pathology.
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