Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    malformation in the heart or vefiels immediately proceding from it may be fo. Indeed, when we confider how frequently fuch indurations in the valves of the heart have been found *; that the difeafe in queftion does not come on till a perfon is advanced in years, and confequently till a rigidity in every part naturally comes on; we (hall I think be inclined to imagine, that a preternatural induration of the parts neceflary to the circulation through the heart, may be the predifponent, if not the efficient caufe, of this diforder. In moft of Morgagni’s obfervations, when he found the valves of the heart indurated or ofllfied, there is no fatis- fadlory account of the fymptoms which the patient had laboured under; on which account, the obfervations are * Vid. Morgagni de Caufis &; Sed. Morbor. Epift. 9- Art. 19. Epift. 23. Art. 8. Epift, 37. Art. 30. Ep. 48. Art. 38. and in many other places. C 3 not I