230 glass slides in one box 20 x 26 x 29 cm with loose labels inserted among slides: - "German Diagrams of Heart". - "Congenital heart cases - under patient's names". - "Dr. Abbott's Heart Slides, Slides of x-ray and electrocardiograph pictures of heart". - 'Miscellaneous slided [sic] showing no information, and not listed in Abbott Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease". - "Sections from A 194/36 Hamilton Medical Museum Haemangiomata of Mitral valve".
“Recently a congenital anomaly found at autopsy was described to me. Since the heart was not removed I can only describe the findings. The infant which was cyanotic at birth, breathed with great difficulty and died within twenty-four hours with signs of cardiac failure. At autopsy the heart muscle was congested and the heart itself was moderately dilated…the only abnormal finding was in the pulmonary artery where above each sinus of valsalva there was a long narrow slit extending cleanly through the wall of the pulmonary artery…”
“It is with greatest mortification that I have to write you and tell you that the condition about which I wrote to you in my previous letter was a mistake…”
