Diseases of the heart / by James MacKenzie.

  • Mackenzie, James, 1853-1925.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Diseases of the heart / by James MacKenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE DEFINITIONS (continued)— paroxysmal tachycardia . xxii pulsus altemans . . xxii pulsus bigeminus . xxii sino-auricular node . xxiii sphygmogram . 134 tonicity .... xxiii, 301 ventricular rhythm xxiii, 261 ventricular venous pulse . xxiii viscero-motor reflex . xxiii viscero-sensory reflex . . xxiii DEGENERATION OF HEART MUSCLE See Senile Heart . . 313 DELUSIONS .... . 50 DEPRESSION OF TONICITY OF THE HEART . 301 DEPRESSOR NERVE . . 41 DESIRE TO BREATHE . . 51 DEVELOPMENT of arms .... . 63 of the heart . 32 DIABETES pericarditis in . 282 DIAGRAM showing relation of brain, spinal cord, and skin to a sensory nerve 60 DIAPHRAGM in the fixation of the heart . . 39 DIASTOLIC MURMUR . . 331 DIASTOLIC NOTCH in a sphygmogram . 135 DIASTOLIC PERIOD in a sphygmogram . 135 DIASTOLIC WAVE cause of . 135 in the jugular pulse . 154 DICROTIC WAVE cause of . 135 DIET in cardio-sclerosis . 319 in treatment 360, 361 DIGESTIVE TUBE nature of symptoms produced by . 58 DIGITAL EXAMINATION of the arteries . 131 of the arterial pressure . 138 of the arterial pulse . 129 DIGITALIS .... . 232 and blood-pressure 233, 377 in cardio-sclerosis . 377 causing heart-block . 373 causing intermittent pulse . . 275 causing pulsus altemans . 373 conditions in which it is useful . 377 PAGE DIGITALIS (continued)— conditions in which it is useless . 379 effect on conductivity . . . 377 increasing depression of conduc- tivity . . . . .377 effect on contractility . . . 377 danger in administration of . . 235 extra-systoles due to . . .191 effect on dilatation of the heart . 311 action of different preparations . 378 effect on dropsy . . . 312, 378 effect on enlargement of the liver . 311 action of, on the human heart 30, 377 illustrative cases, showing effects of 430, 431, 433 effect on auricular fibrillation . 231 susceptibility of auricular fibrilla- tion to 232 effect on auricular fibrillation due to cardio-sclerosis . . .317 in practice. . . . .376 use of, in prognosis . . .311 effect on rate .... 377 reason for uncertain action of .379 reason for contradictory effects of . 379 significance of coupled beats pro- duced by .... 375 and slow respiration ... 55 sudden death due to . . . 379 action on tonicity . . .377 in the treatment of dilatation . 373 method of use .... 233 hypodermic injections of digitalin unsatisfactory . . .379 preparation and administration of 378 Nativelle’s granules of digitalin . 378 method of administration . . 234 digitalis does not raise the blood- pressure ..... 377 importance of slowing the heart’s action ..... 377 special efficacy in cases of auricu- lar fibrillation .... 377 DIGITALIS, SQUILLS AND CALOMEL in cardiac dropsy . . . 312 DILATATION OP THE HEART . 300 in febrile affections . . . 284 albuminuria in . . . . 309 alcoholic . . . .301,307 dropsy in . . . . 307,308 effect on angina pectoris . . 306 effect on arterial pressure . . 306 laboured breathing in . . .52 effect on cardiac asthma . . 306 in cardio-sclerosis . . . 318 cause of 300 effect on Cheyne-Stokes respiration 306 of no importance in young healthy hearts 310 a rare condition . . . .310