The Prognosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Prognosis and Treatment of Diseases of the HeartThe first thing to realise about heart disease is that the heart may be damaged either in its valves or its muscle, without giving rise to any symptoms at all. The heart, when examined for insurance or in some routine way, may disclose a valvular mur mur, an irregular or intermittent pulse, of which there has been given no subjective evidence. Now assuming this murmur to be due to structural disease, it merely informs us that that particular heart is not so good a mechanism as some other heart which has no valvular lesion or pulse irregularity. Since, ex hypothesi, there are no cardiac symptoms, the case requires no treatment, at the same time it does affect the prognosis, and more especially is it import ant when the case is one for insurance. Here a number of factors must be considered, such as the cause of the valvular lesion, whether due to rheu matism, chorea or scarlet fever on the one hand, or whether induced by excess of alcohol, lues, overstrain or a part of general arterial degeneration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.