Wally Hartshorn

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Furthermore, what the history of the heart also teaches us is the fragility and reversibility of scientific progress. Ancient civilizations went from being this close to putting the theory of human circulation together, perhaps being one tourniquet around the elbow from revealing the true nature of the cardiovascular system, to descending into almost fifteen hundred years of darkness. How can such progress be so brittle?
State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
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