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Title: Diseases of the heart and arterial system : designed to be a practical presentation of the subject for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Babcock, Robert H. (Robert Hall), b. 1851
Subjects: Heart Arteries Heart Diseases Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Publisher: New York and London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ronic interstitial nephritis 822 From a woman with mild myxcedema 822 From a man with well-compensated mitral insufficiency .... 822From a woman with arteriosclerosis and fairly well-compensated mitral incompetence 823 From a woman with arteriosclerosis and mitral insufficiency fairly compen-sated 823 From a man with arteriosclerosis, chronic interstitial nephritis, and mitral insufficiency, with failing compensation, Cheyne-Stokes respiration . . 824From a woman with mitral obstruction and regurgitation with failing com-pensation 824 From a man with mitral regurgitation, lost compensation, relative tricuspid insufficiency, ascites, etc 824 From a woman with mitral obstruction and insufficiency, lost compensation and relative incompetence of the tricuspid. Delirium cordis . . . 824 From a boy with acute rheumatism on second day of endocarditis . . 825 From same patient, two years later, with developed aortic stenosis . . 825 Cardiogram from a girl with mitral insufficiency 826 PLATK I
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ANATOMICAL RELATIONS OF THORACIC AND ABDOMINAL VISCERA. DISEASES OF THE HEART GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS PERTAINING TO THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND EXAMINATION OF THE HEART INTRODUCTORY In this chapter are presented certain facts which, because oftheir bearing on the examination and the diseases of the heart,should be well understood. Location of the Heart.—This main organ of circulation is situ-ated in the central and lower part of the thoracic cavity, restingupon the upper convex surface of the diaphragm (see frontis-piece) in such a manner that its long axis forms an angle of sixtydegrees with that of the body (Rosenstein). The base of theorgan is directed upward, backward, and towards the right side,while its apex points downward, forward, and to the left, so asto strike against the chest-wall in the fifth left intercostal spacean inch inside the nipple-line. The larger portion of the heart,therefore, lies to the left of the median line. It is attached at itsbase to the great vesseldiseasesofhearta1907babc

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