Certain clinical features of cardiac disease / by G. A. Gibson.

  • Gibson George Alexander, 1854-1913.
Date:
1908
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    [From The Johns Hopkins PIospital BdlletiNj VoI. XIX, No. 213, December, 1908.] CEETAIN CLimCAL PEATUEES OP CAEDIAC DISEASE/ By G. A. Gibson, M. D., LL. D. Physician to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Allow me in the [361] first place to express the pleasure which has been afforded me iu havhig the opportunity, through the kind invitation of my friend. Professor Barker, of meeting you on this occasion. To be requested to make any remarks upon cardiac disease before this society, the members of which have done so much admirable work upon many aspects of the circulation, in health as well as in disease, is indeed a distinction only miti- gated by the feeling that it will be difficult to advance any- thing that is not already well known to you. The title which has been suggested for my address allows, however, a wide latitude of which advantage will be fully taken. The result will undoubtedly be that, my remarks will be somewhat desul- torj, but they will be essentially clinical. Let me direct your attention in the first place to some of the nervous features associated with that complex of symptoms which receives the name of angina pectoris. It is quite un- necessary to dwell upon the main circulatory disturbances, bnt it may be well to mention in passing that the arterial pressure may be high or low, and the heart and vessels may show^ very great, or extremely small, departures from normal conditions. The pain, which is the central fact in the ner- vous symptoms, is essentially of the variety which has been termed “ referred or “ somatic.” Por its thorough compre- <telivered before The Johns Hopkins Hospital dical Society, October 1, 1908.