Corvisart des Marets, J.  Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiues du coeur et des gros vaisseaux (1806).

Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders.  He was the first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dispnoea of effort.  His translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion resulted in the universal adoption of that procedure.  Corvisart was Napoleon's favorite physician, to whom he dedicates this book. 

(Source:  Garrison & Morton)