Chronic endarteritis, and its clinical and pathological effects (chronic Bright's disease) / by Arthur V. Meigs.

  • Meigs, Arthur Vincent, 1850-1912.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: Chronic endarteritis, and its clinical and pathological effects (chronic Bright's disease) / by Arthur V. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the heart it seems as if this had, owing to some irritation, become inflamed, and there are man}- proliferated nuclei in the membrane itself, or lying inside of it, producing swellings in the lining of the artery, just as is so commonly seen in the atheromatous processes of adult life (see Fig. 4). It is impos- sible to avoid drawing a parallel between these appearances and what is so well known and has been so much studied in inflammation of the cornea. The drawings were made for me bv Dr. B. Alexander Randall, and they admirably represent the appearances intended to be shown. As they were to be reproduced by photographic process, they were necessarily made somewhat diagrammatic, for many of the finer lines and shadings in a drawing cannot have justice done them by the photographic method as here applied. It was my desire in this paper to deal more with the clinical than the pathological side of the subject—to try to formulate the symptoms so that a diagnosis may be more easily made; and last, though by no means least, it is high tune to give the disease a name, so that it may be commonly recognized and admitted to our every-day classifications of diseases. To me it seems plain enough, in the present state of clinical and pathological knowledge, that the morbid process is chronic endarteritis—and so the disease should be named.