A History of Cardiac Surgery
A History of Cardiac Surgery A History of Cardiac Surgery: An Adventurous Voyage from Antiquity to the Artificial Heart By Ugo Filippo Tesler A History of Cardiac Surgery: An Adventurous Voyage from Antiquity to the Artificial Heart By Ugo Filippo Tesler This book first published 2020 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2020 by Ugo Filippo Tesler All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-4248-3 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-4248-8 To my wife Cristina, my constant companion, support and source of wisdom, with gratitude and love Le Coeur qui est domicile de l’ame, organe de la faculté vitale, principe de vie, fontaine & source de l’esprit vital & de le chaleur naturelle fluant, & pource premier vivàt & dernier mouràt, à cause qu’il devoit avoir mouvement de soy meme, est fait de chair grosse & dure, & plus solide qu’autre de tout le corps. —Ambroise Paré Les Ouvres d’Ambroise Paré, Conseiller et Premier Chirurgien du Roy. Le Quatrieme Livre, Traictant de l’Anatomie lequel contient les parties vitales. Chap XI. Du Coeur, p. 147 Quatriesme Edition, Chez Gabriel Brun, Paris 1585 (The Heart that is home of the soul, organ of the vital faculty, principle of life, fountain & source of the vital spirit & of the flow of natural heat, & the first to live & the last to die, because it must be able to move on its own, it is made of a harder & stronger substance than any other of the whole body.) *** It is not in the nature of things for any one man to make a sudden violent discovery; science goes step by step, and every man depends on the work of his predecessors.
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