Diseases of the Heart and AortaLippincott, 1913 - 738 pages |
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abdominal acute Adams-Stokes Adams-Stokes syndrome ĉdema anĉmia aneurism angina angina pectoris aorta aortic insufficiency apex Arch arrhythmia arteriosclerosis attacks auricular auriculoventricular beat Berl blood blood-pressure bundle cardiac dulness carotid cause cent changes chest chronic circulation clinical condition contraction cyanosis Deutsch diagnosis diastolic digitalis dilatation diminished disease doses ductus dyspnea effect electrocardiogram endocarditis especially extrasystoles factors fibres fibrillation heart muscle heart sounds heart-block Hirschfelder hypertrophy impulse increased injection irregular Johns Hopkins klin latter left auricle left interspace left ventricle Leipz lesions liver Lond lungs maximal minimal pressure mitral insufficiency mitral stenosis myocarditis nephritis nitrite normal occur orifice overstrain pain palpitation patient pericardial pericardium Phila Physiol present presystolic pulmonary artery pulsation pulse-pressure pulse-rate result rhythm right ventricle sclerosis septum showing shown stasis symptoms systolic murmur tion tissue tonicity tracings treatment tricuspid insufficiency Ueber usually valves valvular vasomotor veins venous pulse ventricular vessels wall wave
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Page 368 - In all other respects, the patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well, and in particular have no shortness of breath, from which it is totally different.
Page 368 - They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes.
Page 629 - Place the patient in the erect position and direct him to close his mouth and elevate his chin to the fullest extent, then grasp the cricoid cartilage between the finger and thumb, and use gentle upward pressure on it, when, if dilatation or aneurism' exist, the pulsation of the aorta will be distinctly felt transmitted through the trachea to the hand.
Page 233 - In the year 1775, my opinion was asked concerning a family receipt for the cure of the dropsy. I was told that it had long been kept a secret by an old woman in Shropshire, who had sometimes made cures after the more regular practitioners had failed.
Page ix - PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION SINCE the appearance of the first edition of...
Page 368 - After it has continued a year or more, it will not cease so instantaneously upon standing still; and it will come on not only when the persons are walking, but when they are lying down, especially if they lie on the left side, and oblige them to rise up out of their beds. In some inveterate cases it has been brought on by the motion of a horse, or a carriage, and even by swallowing, coughing, going to stool, or speaking, or any disturbance of mind.
Page 269 - The general plan governing these movements is as follows : " 1. Each movement is to be performed slowly and evenly, that is, at a uniform rate. 2. No movement is to be repeated twice in succession in the same limb or group of muscles. 3. Each single or combined movement is to be followed by an interval of rest. 4. The movements are not...
Page 342 - Entire fnmilies sometimes show this tendency to early arteriosclerosis — a tendency which cannot be explained in any other way than that in the make-up of the machine bad material was used for the tubing.
Page 3 - ... that it neither dissociates spontaneously, nor can be made to do so by the action of external stimuli. It is possible that this stable, non-dissociable form consists of a compound between it and the potassium or the potassium salts and that herein lies the functional importance of the large amount of potassium contained in the tissue. This compound reacts with the calcium or with the calcium and sodium salts, and a portion of the potassium is replaced and a compound is formed which is unstable....
Page 368 - There is a disorder of the breast, marked with strong and peculiar symptoms, considerable for the kind of danger belonging to it, and not extremely rare, of which I do not recollect any mention among medical authors.