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

  • Meigs, Arthur Vincent, 1850-1912.
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[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.

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    CHRONIC ENDARTERITIS, AND ITS CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL EFFECTS. (CHRONIC BRIGHT'S DISEASE.) By ARTHUR V. MEIGS, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO THE PENNSYLVANIA AND TO THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS. [Read June 5. 1889.] Chronic endarteritis is as much a disease by itself—a separate entity—as are typhoid fever and measles. It is in the highest degree important that this fact should be recog- nized, and that the disease should be transferred from the position it now occupies among the obscure and little under- stood pathological curiosities, to the rank it is sure soon to claim for itself among the common and well-known com- plaints of every-day life. Until clinicians ordinarily are pre- pared to diagnosticate it during life and to announce it as a cause of death among their patients, its frequency of occurrence and importance will not be fully perceived. The name by which a disease is called is not an unimportant matter, for, if a name be accurately descriptive it is well received, and those who hear it easily comprehend what is meant, and thereby knowledge is rapidly diffused. The name arterio-capillary fibrosis, proposed a good many years ago by Gull and Sutton, has never been commonly accepted, for the complaint cannot justly be called a fibrosis, and disease of the capillaries has never been proved to be an essential part of the process, and therefore their description of the pathology was incorrect. The fact that our knowledge of the complaint is still most in- complete is no more reason for longer delaying to receive it