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• Nager, Frank

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Kiadó: Editiones Roche
ISBN 3-907770-02-1
1993

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Foreword

The heart is earlier than the word, or should be. Earlier even than a foreword. Tampering a bit with Shakespeare: What the heart thinks, the tongue should speak. Even if one's remarks are merely prefatory and, here and there, deliberately playful, they should come from the heart. (A heartless pun, what could be more pointlessly foolish?) The natural language of the heart is the most deserving of belief, as our idioms repeatedly attest. He spoke with an open heart. He unburdened his heart. He poured out his heart.
'Heart' is a word with a multiplicity of meanings. In its uses as sign, cipher and symbol, it comprehends and conveys much, doubling for other words when no others will do. It denotes the central organ of the body and, by extension, something less prosaically pivotal. A focal point; a source. The heart, by ancient authority, is the physical locus of the human spirit, the repository of character, the seat of the soul. Even today the metaphors that identify it as the source of human emotion, as the wellspring of affection, love and kindness, of joy and sorrow, of courage and fear, seem more natural than figurative. Heart and soul, inseparably one. Expanding the word's range of sense and reference, language has turned its semantic potential to remarkable uses. And the pictorial and symbolic idioms of art have proved even more resourceful here. Is there anything one cannot do, or that hasn't yet been done, with the heart? One can wear one's heart on one's sleeve or give it away. Its physical indivisibility in life does not keep us from acting halfheartedly. And how many utterly heartless people carry on living to a ripe old age?
The heart is the centre of the body, the central organ. From first beat to last, its pulsing contractions keep the circulation in motion, generating blood pressure between the heart and the resistance vessels and delivering nutrients to organs and tissues. Life's blood simultaneously flows from and to the heart. How mistaken it would be to regard it as a senseless muscular pump. It is the hub around which life revolves.
The book in hand, TheMythology ofthe Heart, is the work of a noted cardiologist. And what a book it is! Profound, delightful, wide ranging and, in places, genuinely moving   just the sort of bracingly literate tonic we doctors need in this unlettered age. At a time when medicine generally, and cardiology in particular, seems doomed to decline into a heartless, invasive exercise in mechanical skill, the book will strike many as a breath of fresh air. Frank Nager has tackled his subject with pancardiological sweep, and his style is refreshingly straightforward and readable. He delves into the mythology of the heart in a variety of disparate cultures and intellectual domains, and makes some astonishing finds. It is a fascinating book sure to win over many a reader. I must say that it captured my heart at once. I heartily congratulate my countryman from the Swiss heartland on his masterly opusculum cordis. /Prof.Fritz R.Bühler, MD - Head of Roche International Clinical Research