Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure

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Author

Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas), 1862-1940

Credits

This etext was produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Blood pressure

Category

Text

eBook-No.

3731

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3731

Release Date

February 1, 2003

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART
2. 2.PREFACE — PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART IN GENERAL — CLINICAL INTERPRETATION OF PULSE TRACINGS — INTERPRETATION OF TRACINGS — TESTS OF HEART STRENGTH — THE EFFECT OF ATHLETICS ON THE HEART — SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF ATHLETICS — SIGNS OF HEART WEAKNESS — SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF CARDIAC DISTURBANCE
5. 5.CLASSIFICATION OF CARDIAC DISTURBANCES
6. 6.BLOOD PRESSURE — TECHNIC — FACTORS INCREASING THE BLOOD PRESSURE — VENOUS PRESSURE — NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE FOR ADULTS — BLOOD PRESSURE IN CHILDREN — BLOOD PRESSURE AND INSURANCE — ALTITUDE — CONDITIONS CAUSING CHANGE IN BLOOD PRESSURE — THE EFFECT OF DRUGS ON BLOOD PRESSURE — THE EFFECT OF DRUGS ON VENOUS BLOOD PRESSURE
7. 7.HYPERTENSION — ETIOLOGY — SYMPTOMS — PROGNOSIS — TREATMENT — DRUGS IN HYPERTENSION
8. 8.HYPOTENSION
9. 9.PERICARDITIS — SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS — TREATMENT OF ACUTE PERICARDITIS — ADHERENT PERICARDITIS
10. 10.MYOCARDIAL DISTURBANCES — ACUTE MYOCARDITIS — CHRONIC MYOCARDITIS: FIBROUS — SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS — MANAGEMENT — FATTY DEGENERATION — FATTY HEART
11. 11.ENDOCARDITIS — ACUTE MILD ENDOCARDITIS — A SECONDARY AFFECTION — PATHOLOGY — TREATMENT OF ENDOCARDITIS — ALKALIES — IRON — OPIUM — BROMIDS AND CHLORAL — PREVENTION — DIET — LAXATIVES — CARDIAC DRUGS — BATHS — STRYCHNIN — ALCOHOL — PROGNOSIS AND CONVALESCENCE — MALIGNANT ENDOCARDITIS: ULCERATIVE ENDOCARDITIS — DIAGNOSIS — TREATMENT — CHRONIC ENDOCARDITIS — ETIOLOGY — PATHOLOGY — TREATMENT
12. 12.CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE VALVES — PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED — DECOMPENSATION — PHYSICS OF MITRAL STENOSIS — PHYSICS OF AORTIC LESIONS — AORTIC STENOSIS — OTHER LESIONS — SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC VALVULAR LESIONS — MITRAL STENOSIS: MITRAL NARROWING — MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY: MITRAL REGURGITATION — AORTIC STENOSIS: AORTIC OBSTRUCTION — AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY: AORTIC REGURGITATION — TRICUSPID INSUFFICIENCY — TRICUSPID STENOSIS: TRICUSPID OBSTRUCTION — PULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY: PULMONARY REGURGITATION — PULMONARY STENOSIS: PULMONARY OBSTRUCTION
13. 13.ACUTE CARDIAC SYMPTOMS: ACUTE HEART ATTACK — MANAGEMENT — DRUGS — TREATMENT OF BROKEN COMPENSATION — A. HYGIENE — INDICATIONS FOR STRYCHNIN — EMERGENCIES — CONVALESCENCE
14. 14.DIET AND BATHS IN HEART DISEASE — THE RESORT TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HEART DISEASE — NAUHEIM BATHS
15. 15.HEART DISEASE IN CHILDREN AND DURING PREGNANCY — CARDIAC DISEASE IN PREGNANCY
16. 16.DEGENERATIONS — PATHOLOGY — SYMPTOMS — TREATMENT — ANGINA PECTORIS — SYMPTOMS — MANAGEMENT — PSEUDO-ANGINA — TREATMENT OF PSEUDO-ANGINAS — STOKES-ADAMS DISEASE: HEART BLOCK — TREATMENT
17. 17.CARDIOVASCULAR RENAL DISEASE — TREATMENT
18. 18.DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART RATE — ETIOLOGY — TREATMENT — AURICULAR FIBRILLATION: AURICULAR FLUTTER — OCCURRENCE — PATHOLOGY — DIAGNOSIS — PROGNOSIS — TREATMENT — PULSUS ALTERNANS — BRADYCARDIA — SYMPTOMS — PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA — MANAGEMENT — HYPERTHYROIDISM
19. 19.TOXIC DISTURBANCES AND HEART RATE — INTESTINAL PUTREFACTION — ALCOHOL — CAFFEIN — TOBACCO
20. 20.MISCELLANEOUS DISTURBANCES — SIMPLE DILATATION — HEART IN ACUTE DISEASE — THE HEART IN PNEUMONIA — SHOCK — ACUTE DILATATION OF THE STOMACH — ANESTHESIA IN HEART DISEASE

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