on ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS 469 267 see State Medical Association 279 541 287 Physician's Duty..... 203 Too Much Value on Murmurs 7 .... 741 397 527 Cases Treated with Anti- 404 Done on the Living Foetus? 211 479 21 339 749 603 727 eral Practitioner to.... 331 in the Treatment of Tubercu- 95 422 Memorial Address Dr. 139 91 422 668 tion Questions and Answers University of the South.... 684 and Hemoglobinuria........ 477 701 615 594 674 146 ABSTRACTS Adrenalin, Contribution to Our 620 151 480 Bacteria that Accompany the 753 289 .... 617 351 , laxis of Scarlatinal...... 34 32 as a. iy Parasitic Diseases of........ 219 Sepsis, Treatment of Puerperal 224 Septic Affections, Collargolum Serous Effusions, Treatment of 350 288 Dr. Joseph P. Cain of S. 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PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO., 128 PEARL ST., NEW YORK. 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 Depart ment 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, 1903. |