A System of medicine v. 4, 1877, Volume 4Sir John Russell Reynolds J.B. Lippincott, 1877 |
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acme acute rheumatism adhesions aneurism angina pectoris aortic regurgitation aortic valve apex arch ascending aorta attack audible blood breadth Bright's disease cardiac cartil cavity cent chest chorea coma contraction costal cartilages creaking death delirium diaphragm diastolic dilatation displacement distension dorsal vertebra edge effusion endocarditis enlarged ensiform cartilage extent fifth cartilage flaps fluid fourth cartilage friction sound front furrow half an inch heart hypertrophy impulse increased inflammation instances joint affection left auricle left lung left side left ventricle lessened lower border lower boundary lower end mitral murmur mitral orifice mitral valve movements muscular observed occur organ pain papillary muscles patient pericarditis pericardium Pirogoff's position posterior present pressure pulmonary artery region ribs right auricle right side right ventricle second sound second space septum situated sternum surface symptoms systole third cartilage third space tion transverse tricuspid murmur tricuspid orifice tricuspid valve upwards valvular disease vessels walls
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Page 707 - ... the two most ready solutions appear to be, either that the altered quality of the blood affords irregular and unwonted stimulus to the organ immediately; or, that it so affects the minute and capillary circulation, as to render greater action necessary to force the blood through the distant sub-divisions of the vascular system.
Page 571 - ... now know that this typical angina is only the culminating form of a group of symptoms, which in their less pronounced, less definitely painful, and more complicated forms, are found to permeate the whole field of cardiac pathology and diagnosis (p. 570). From his own personal experience he says : — There is often an element of subjective abnormal sensation present in cardiac diseases which, when it is not localised through the coincidence of pain, is a specially indefinable and undescribable...
Page 571 - ... localised through the coincidence of pain, is a specially indefinable and undescribable sensation (p. 565). A sensation which can only be called anxiety or cardiac oppression (p. 566). To this group of symptoms he gave the special title angina sine dolore, recognising thereby what he believed to be " its true diagnostic and pathological significance and its alliance with the painful angina of Heberden.
Page 185 - Collin, nor those proceeding from pericarditic with valvular murmur, but a mixture of the various attrition murmurs with a large crepitating and a gurgling sound, while to all these phenomena was added a distinct metallic character. In the whole of my experience I never met so extraordinary a combination of sounds. The stomach was not distended by air, and the lung and pleura were unaffected, but the region of the heart gave a tympanitic bruit de pot feU on percussion ; and I could form no conclusion...