Diseases of the heart / by James MacKenzie.

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

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CONTENTS Definition of Terms PAGE xxi CHAPTER I The Appreciation of Affections of the Heart The object of the physician’s examination. Methods adopted in describing affections of the heart. Causes of confused diagnosis. The relative importance of symptoms. The essential symptoms of heart failure. Inadequacy of the methods usually employed to estimate the heart’s efficiency 1 CHAPTER II The Pathology of Heart Failure What is heart failure ? The back-pressure theory of heart failure. Compensation. The origin of these views. Evil done by the back-pressure theory. Heart failure and pathological changes. Functional impairment of the heart. The evidences of impaired function .5 CHAPTER III The Principles underlying the Production of Heart Failure The purpose of the circulation and how it is attained. The importance of the heart muscle. The meaning of heart failure. The two forces of the heart muscle. The reserve force of the heart muscle. How heart failure begins. The relation between exhaustion and restoration of the reserve force of the heart. Conditions exhausting the reserve force 10 CHAPTER IV Exhaustion of the Heart Muscle Importance of the exhaustion of the reserve force. Effect of exhaustion in the individual beat of the heart. Exhaustion and restoration of the reserve force. Estimation of the amount of reserve force. Evidences of exhaustion. Practical value of estimating the cardiac condition by the degrees of exhaustion. The restoration of the exhausted heart . 14 CHAPTER Y Determination of the Value of Symptoms The necessity for appreciating the meaning of symptoms. How the significance of symptoms is acquired. Discrimination of the significance of symptoms. Signs of exhaustion of the Reserve force 18