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DR. JAMES HOPE, one of the most eminent London physicians of the first half of the nineteenth century and one who contributed much to our knowledge of diseases of the heart, was born at Stockport, Cheshire, on February 23, 1801, the tenth of a family of twelve. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, where he qualified in 1825 with a thesis on aneurysm of the aorta. After spending two years in foreign travel including a year in Paris under Chomel, he settled in London in 1828 and soon acquired an extensive practice. He made numerous contributions to periodic literature on heart disease, and in 1831 published his chief work entitled “A Treatise on Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels”, which comprised a new view of the physiology of the heart's action according to which the physical signs are explained. In the following year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1834 he was elected assistant physician and in 1839 full physician to St. George's Hospital. His second most important work was published in 1833 and 1834, entitled “Principles and Illustrations of Morbid Anatomy adapted to the Elements of M. Andrai and to the Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings from originals by the author”. He died on May 12, 1841, at the early age of forty.
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Dr. James Hope. Nature 147, 605–606 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147605d0
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