A text-book of medical treatment : diseases and symptons / by Nestor Tirard.

  • Tirard, Nestor Isidore Charles, Sir, 1853-1928.
Date:
1900
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    MEDICAL TEEATMBNT CHAPTER I CIECULATION Acute Pericarditis—Chronic Pericarditis—Endocarditis, Simple and Ulcerative —Chronic Valvular Lesions—Dilatation of the Heart—Hypertrophy of the Heart—Fatty Degeneration—Functional Palpitation—Angina Pectoris— Syncope and Collapse. Acute Pericarditis.—In a book upon Medical Treat- ment there are obvious advantages in grouping the different diseases and prominent symptoms on an anatomical basis, rather than in dealing with them in the order of their frequency or importance. At the outset, however, this scheme presents certain inconveniences, since while it appears rational to commence with the circulation, and to discuss in tium acute and chronic diseases of the pericardium before approaching the results of valvular lesions, trophic changes, nem’oses, and alterations in the blood, pericarditis is ordinarily a complication of some pre-existing disease for which definite hygienic and medicinal measures have already been adopted. The development of this new trouble, while it calls for adequate recognition, will not necessarily interfere with the general course of treatment. Acute pericarditis, as it occurs in connection with rheu- matic fever, is so commonly marked by pain that this symptom must be dealt with independently of the measures that have already been taken for the relief of the other symptoms of rheumatism. The pain of pericarditis com- monly originates in the prsecordial region, but it may ex- tend over a wide area, and may be associated with epigastric tenderness and occasionally with shooting pains similar to B