Lectures on diseases of the heart

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Boericke & Tafel, 1880 - 248 pages

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Page 169 - It consists in the occurrence of a series of inspirations, increasing to a maximum, and then declining in force and length, until a state of apparent apnoea is established. In this condition the patient may remain for such a length of time as to make his attendants believe that he is dead, when a low inspiration, followed by one more decided, marks the commencement of a new ascending and then descending series of inspirations.
Page 62 - Not only the actual paroxysms, but the disease, generally finds in arsenicum its appropriate remedy, provided the disorder is not complicated with structural changes of the heart and the large arteries, or other extensive disorganizations. It is indicated if the patient can only breathe very gently, with his chest stooping forward, and if the least motion causes a complete loss of breath ; if oppression and stitches in the prsecordial region are associated with anxiety and a fainting sort of weakness;...

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