Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 108 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 108 (Classic Reprint) written by C. S. Briggs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 108 It is not unusual, in hospital as in private practice, to meet with patients who, having suffered for a long time with chronic ne phritis of urmmic type and dropsical manifestations, present all the clinical symptoms of asystolic patients of cardiac origin with which they have for a long time been confused, for there is pres ent a marked hypertension, a dilated heart which, after having developed a bruit, has gradually weakened and with intermis sions, give signs of mitral valve lesion. The right side of the heart in its turn becomes dilated, and there is then manifested the symptoms of asytole with general oedema. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.