Lectures on diseases of the heartBoericke & Tafel, 1880 - 248 pages |
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... occurring under circumstances removed from all possible suggestions of emotion or life . All connection with the spinal cord is severed . The brain cannot send to it any voluntary influence . The blood no longer courses through it , to ...
... occurring under circumstances removed from all possible suggestions of emotion or life . All connection with the spinal cord is severed . The brain cannot send to it any voluntary influence . The blood no longer courses through it , to ...
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... occur . The boundaries of the superficial cardiac region are thus given : It is bounded on its sides by lung , and on the greater part of one side , viz . , the lower , by the liver and stomach , with the diaphragm intervening . The ...
... occur . The boundaries of the superficial cardiac region are thus given : It is bounded on its sides by lung , and on the greater part of one side , viz . , the lower , by the liver and stomach , with the diaphragm intervening . The ...
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... occur in disordered conditions of that organ . They mingle with , follow , or quite supersede the healthy sounds . These " murmurs , " as they are generally called , with one or two exceptions may be considered as modifications of the ...
... occur in disordered conditions of that organ . They mingle with , follow , or quite supersede the healthy sounds . These " murmurs , " as they are generally called , with one or two exceptions may be considered as modifications of the ...
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... occurs in chlorosis or anæmia . The liquid in these states being more movable , currents are more easily formed by whatever affects the regular movements of the blood . In such conditions , anything which excites the circulation will ...
... occurs in chlorosis or anæmia . The liquid in these states being more movable , currents are more easily formed by whatever affects the regular movements of the blood . In such conditions , anything which excites the circulation will ...
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... occur only during the systole of the ventricles — are not generally heard below the left nipple , as they do not arise from regurgitation through the mitral valve . They are almost always accom- panied by a smart , smacking impulse ...
... occur only during the systole of the ventricles — are not generally heard below the left nipple , as they do not arise from regurgitation through the mitral valve . They are almost always accom- panied by a smart , smacking impulse ...
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abnormal acid aconite acute affection anæmia anxiety aorta aortic aortic regurgitant apex-beat arteries auscultation Baehr beating blood brain Bright's disease cardiac region cause cavities cerebral chest circulation clinical Collinsonia condition congestion contraction diagnosis diastolic digitalis dilatation dilutions doses dropsy dyspnoea edition emotions endocarditis enlargement excessive excitement fatty degeneration feeble fibrin Flint functional disorder give rise heart heart's action homoeopathic hypertrophy impulse increased indicated inflammation intensity irregular irritation lecture left ventricle less liquid effusion lungs Materia Medica medicines membrane ment mental mitral morbid murmur muscular nerves nervous nux vomica observed obstruction occur organic disease orifice pain palpitation paralysis paroxysms patient percussion pericarditis pericardium physical signs physician præcordia pulmonary pulsation pulse rarely regurgitation remedy result rheumatic right auricle right ventricle says second sound serous sometimes structural sudden death symptoms systolic Therapeutics tincture tion tricuspid trituration valves valvular disease valvular lesions veins venous ventricular veratrum veratrum album veratrum viride walls weak
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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;...