Arteriosclerosis : etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment / with an introduction by W.S. Thayer.

  • Warfield, Louis M. (Louis Marshall), 1876-
Date:
1908
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Arteriosclerosis : etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment / with an introduction by W.S. Thayer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

    18/212
    is relatively recent. In later years, however, it has definitely caught the popular ear; it figures in the newspapers as a new disease;'' it means something to each member of the public; it is a diagnosis satisfying to the anxious friends of the patient. And, too often, the general diagnosis Arteriosclerosis'' has come to satisfy the physician himself who, without finding a definite explanation of the obscure symptoms of his patient, rests on his oars with the constatation of the tortuous temporal or the palpable radial of the sufferer. The term Arteriosclerosis is fast coming to take a place near the throne once occupied by Malaria; it is becoming a dangerous word. Great as is the importance of arterial changes in relation to many of the ills to which flesh is heir, and numerous as have been the anatomical, clinical and experimental researches concerning this subject, it must be acknowledged that there is much yet to be learned with regard to the etiology, the manner of development, the nature of the changes in different parts of the arterial tree, their relation to variations in blood pressure and to visceral disease as well as concerning the relations of peripheral to central changes;