100 years ago, in 1925, surgeon 𝐇. 𝐒. 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐫 published a remarkable paper titled “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴.” At a time when surgeons barely dared to touch the heart, Souttar quite literally did just that. What’s striking is not only the bravery of the procedure, but the way the heart was already being understood as a 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦. Long before imaging, pressure catheters, or computational model

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