Cases of organic diseases of the heart : with dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases : read before the counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society / by John C. Warren, M.D.

  • Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Cases of organic diseases of the heart : with dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases : read before the counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society / by John C. Warren, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTICLE X. CASES OP ORGANIC DISEASES OF THE HEART, WITH DISSECTIONS. BY JOHN C. WARREN, M. D. or BOSTON. READ FEBRUARY 1st. 1809. IVloRBiD changes in the organization of the heart are so frequent, as to have attracted the observation of those, who have devoted any attention to the study of morbid anatomy. Derangements of the primary organ of the circulation cannot exist with- out producing so great disorder of the functions of that and of other parts, as to be sufficiently conspi- cuous by external signs; but, as these somewhat resemble the symptoms of different complaints, espe- cially of asthma, phthisis pulmonalis, and water in the thorax, it has happened, that each of these has been sometimes confounded with the former*. The * A careful examination of the works of some of the most eminent English practical writers does not afford evidence of any clear distinc- tion of these diseases of the heart. Dr. Cullen, whose authority is of the highest estimation, evidently enumerates symptoms of them in his definition and description of the hydrothorax. In § 1702 Th. and Pr. he places much confidence on a particular sign of water in the chest, and remarks, that the same sign is not produced by the presence of pus. Now, there is no sufficient reason, why this symptom should not arise from the presence of pus, as well as from that of water; but it 7