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Volume 17, Issue 1 – Winter 2025 ISSN 2155-3017
Matters of the heart
| The history of the stethoscope, MAS Ahmed, Victoria Turnock The heart of Giselle, Emily Boyle Ibn al-Nafis and the pulmonary circulation, George Dunea Remembering Sir Thomas Lewis, Daniel Gelfman William Harvey, Philip Liebson |
| Rene Favaloro—Father of cardiac bypass surgery, Arpan K. Banerjee De Sénac’s early textbook on cardiology, Göran Wettrell History of endocarditis, Ramin Sam Raymond de Vieussens, Jeremy Parker Andreas Roland Gruentzig, Mahesh Raju |
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