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Review
. 2000 Jan 1;320(7226):39-42.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.39.

ABC of heart failure. History and epidemiology

R C Davis  1 , F D Hobbs, G Y Lip
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Review

ABC of heart failure. History and epidemiology

R C Davis et al. BMJ. .
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The foxglove was used as a medicine in heart disease as long ago as Roman times
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Southey's tubes were at one time used for removing fluid from oedematous peripheries in patients with heart failure
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In 1785 William Withering of Birmingham published an account of medicinal use of digitalis
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Mortality curves from the CONSENSUS-I study
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