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DO WE PLACE TOO HIGH A VALUE ON THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF MURMURS IN CARDIAC

DISEASE?*

BY E. G. WOOD, M.D.,

Professor of Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville.

To the average medical student a cardiac murmur possesses a peculiar and fascinating interest. Entering the hospital ward, armed with his stethoscope, he rushes with undisguised satisfaction to the "new heart case" that has been admitted, and if he can discover and accurately locate a murmur, he is eminently pleased with himself and his diagnostic powers. In too many instances he entirely ignores the information to be gained by the symptoms and by inspection, palpation, and percussion, and promptly proceeds with auscul*Read at meeting of the Nashville Aeademy of Medicine, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 7903.