Diseases of the Heart: A Clinical Text-book for the Use of Students and Practitioners of MedicineH.Kimpton, 1905 - 350 pages |
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Diseases of the Heart: A Clinical Text-Book for the Use of Students and ... Edmund Henry Colbeck No preview available - 2015 |
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acute affections alcohol anæmia aneurism angina pectoris aorta aortic regurgitation aortic stenosis apex beat arteriosus associated atheroma atheromatous attacks audible blood pressure bruit cardiac dulness cardiac muscle cardiac walls cause cavity chest wall circulation commonly compensation congenital congestion consequent degree diastolic diastolic murmur digitalis dilatation dilatation from failure disorder distension disturbance dropsy dyspnoea effusion endocarditis endocardium engorgement enlargement exertion fever fibroid frequently give rise heart heart's action high arterial tension hypertrophy impulse increased inflammation inflammatory instances insufficiency irregular left auricle left ventricle lesion less lungs malignant endocarditis mitral regurgitation mitral stenosis mitral valve morbid muscular myocarditis myocardium normal observed obstruction occasionally occur organ pain palpitation paroxysm patient pericardial adhesion pericardial effusion pericardium physical signs præcordial presystolic production prognosis pulmonary pulmonic pulsation pulse wave rheumatism rhythm right ventricle second sound septum sometimes sternum sudden symptoms systolic murmur tion tissue treatment tricuspid usually valvular disease venous ventricular vessels
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Page 103 - ... shown passing from the vena cava inferior through the fossa ovalis of the right auricle, and the foramen ovale into the left auricle...
Page 186 - ... (in the second and third left intercostal spaces close to the sternum) duly pronounced but not accentuated, it may be inferred that any regurgitation through the mitral is insignificant.
Page v - Physician Extraordinary to HM the Queen, Physician in Ordinary to HRH the Prince of Wales, Consulting Physician to St. Mary's Hospital and the London Fever Hospital, late President of Clinical, Medical, Neurological and Harveian Societies, and John H.
Page viii - It seemed to me at this time, and it does so still, that a book dealing with the clinical side of the subject of Heart Disease in a form suitable to the requirements of the student and newly qualified practitioner of medicine, would prove of very great service.
Page 8 - ... the lower border of the third left costal cartilage, to the upper border of the second right costal cartilage at the junction of these cartilages with the sternum.
Page 69 - ... in the second interspace to the right or left of the sternum, according as the right or left lung is affected.
Page 13 - The augmentor fibres, also shewn by black line, pass from the spinal cord by the anterior rOOts of the second and third thoracic nerves (possibly also from fourth and fifth as indicated by broken black line), pass the second and first (stellate) thoracic ganglia by the annulus of Vieussens to the lower cervical ganglion, from whence, as also from the...
Page 7 - On laryngoscopic examination, the epiglottis and vocal cords could not be seen, but an aperture was visible one-eighth of an inch in diameter, at the bottom of a funnel-shaped depression to the left of the middle line on a level with the epiglottis. This was separated by a thick cicatricial band from another and deeper depression to the right, which terminated in a cul-de-sac containing pus. This small aperture after considerable difficulty was made out to be the only entrance to the larynx and oesophagus....