Volume 2

Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising diseases of the heart / by P.M. Latham.

  • Latham, P. M. (Peter Mere), 1789-1875.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising diseases of the heart / by P.M. Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH CLINICAL MEDICINE. THE HEART. LECTURE XVIII. IMMEDIATE RESULTS OF ENDOCARDITIS AND PERICAR- DITIS.— REPARATION OF THE INJURY DONE TO THE HEART. PERFECT AND IMPERFECT. THOUGH IM- PERFECT, IT MAT SAVE LIFE. CAUSES WHICH HINDER OR POSTPONE REPARATION : 1. THE AMOUNT OF INJURY TO THE HEART ITSELF ; 2. THE AMOUNT OF CONCOMITANT INJURY TO OTHER ORGANS; 3. ORIGINAL WEAKNESS, OR PRAVITY OF CONSTITUTION. — ALLUSION TO CERTAIN AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL MARROW INCIDENT TO THE PERIOD OF REPARATION. Our attention has thus far been occupied with acute inflammation of the heart, as it is found in those structures of the oman which are its most 0 frequent seat; and we have dwelt especially upon