Lectures on Diseases of the HeartBoericke, 1883 - 248 pages |
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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 Homœopathic hypertrophy impulse increased indicated inflammation intensity irregular irritation lecture left ventricle less liquid effusion lungs Materia Medica medicines membrane ment mental mitral morbid murmur nerves nervous nux vomica observed obstruction occur organic disease orifice pain palpitation paralysis paroxysms patient percussion pericarditis pericardium physical signs physician præcordia present 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 treatment tricuspid valves valvular disease valvular lesions veins venous ventricular veratrum veratrum album veratrum viride walls weak
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