Inaugural dissertation on enlargement of the heart : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation, by authority of the Very Reverend Principal Baird, and with the sanction of the senatus academicus / by William Robertson.
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- 1839
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![]y pulmonum, asthma, and bronchitis,) hypertrophy of the left ventricle, and this was believed to de- pend more upon a dilated aorta, studded with calcareous deposit, than upon a small amount of disease in the aortic semilunar valves, which was also discovered upon dissection. Dilatation of the aorta is the first step to the formation of an an- eurism, which, a fortiori, may be a cause, and a most irremediable one, of the production of hy- pertrophy. Partial aneurisms of the heart itself have been observed, sometimes in connexion with enlargement of the organ. A number of such cases have been published in the London Medico- cliirurgical transactions, by Mr. Thurnam. In a subject brought to one of the dissecting-rooms in town, I had an opportunity of seeing an aneurism at the very origin of the aorta, which had caused death by bursting into the pericardium. The left ventricle was hypertrophied in this instance, but the state of the valves I cannot recollect. Ano- ther case of aneurism of the ascending aorta, com- municating with the pulmonary artery, and con- nected with enlargement of the heart, will be found in the appendix.* It were superfluous, after the remarks made upon the case of Gallo- * See Case XV. Hodge, in Table.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2191378x_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
