Clinical disorders of the heartbeat : a handbook for practitioners and students.

  • Thomas Lewis
Date:
1912
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    accuracy ; yet, as I hope to show, a great deal can be accomphshed without it. In the succeeding chapters, I have not attempted to acquaint the reader with the evidence* upon which the diagnosis of the several cardiac disorders rests, but have recounted such physical signs as I have found serviceable in identifying these disorders, prior to the application of more precise methods in individual instances. To ascertain the nature of the heart's mechanism in a given patient is, as we shall see, of twofold value. It is of importance in elucidating the remaining physical signs, especially those of auscultation. And it seriously affects the attitude towards the patient, for it often influences the prognosis and treatment pro- foundly. The recognition of the existing mechanism is, as experience has so often shown, one of the very first essentials in the care of cardiac cases. Such new facts, as may be found in the chapters, have been collected largely during the tenure of a Beit * A full account of such evidence may bo found by those who desire it in my recent publication, The Mechanism of the Heart Beat, published by Messrs. Shaw and Sons, London.
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