Tully, Mary-Alice.
Heart disease /
Mary-Alice and Marianne Tully.
- New York : F. Watts, 1980.
- 64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- A First book .
Includes Bibliography and index
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Early history of heart study
Chapter 3: The work of the heart
Chapter 4: Diagnosis: The tools of the trade
Chapter 5: Athrosclerosis and coronary artery disease: clogged tubes
Chapter 6: Heart attacks and arrhythmias
Chapter 7: Heart surgery: Spare parts
Chapter 8: Rheumatic fever and valve damage: Infection strikes the heart
Chapter 9: Birth defects of the heart: The malformed heart
Chapter 10: Congestive heart failure: the exhausted heart
Chapter 11: High blood pressure
Discusses the history of heart study, the function of the heart, and the symptoms, causes, cures, and prevention of various heart diseases.
0531041638
Heart--Diseases--Juvenile literature.
Heart--Diseases.
WS 113 A398h 1980