Von Ziemssen's Handbook of General Therapeutics, Vol. 7 of 7: Therapeutics of Circulatory Derangements (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Von Ziemssen's Handbook of General Therapeutics, Vol. 7 of 7: Therapeutics of Circulatory Derangements A few words on the proper scope of this work may not be out of place, in order to prevent misconception of the Author's aim. The main subject of this work is chronic venous stasis and its consequences, by whatever cause induced, but especially in connection with obesity and fatty heart. Venous stasis is a common consequence of various pathological conditions, enumerated on the first page of the 'Introduction, ' and valvular failure of the left heart is there mentioned as one of its causes, but there are a great many more, and the work must not be looked upon as a work on the treatment of heart-disease per se. The reproach which has been made that various cardiac lesions find no mention in this treatise is, therefore, quite beside the question, as the title alone ought to have shown. The chief clinical history (Case I.) in the book is not a case of heart-disease, properly speaking, it is the case of a medical man affected with a kyphotic curvature of the spine, which caused contraction of the thorax. Hence the circulation through the lungs was interfered with, cramped up as they were in a smaller space than natural, and enlargement of the right side of the heart and ultimately general venous stasis gradually ensued. Most of the cases are cases of obesity and fatty heart, and out of thirty cases treated by the Author on his method there are only two of valvular disease. 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.