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

  • Warfield, Louis M. (Louis Marshall), 1876-
Date:
1908
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Credit: Arteriosclerosis : etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment / by Louis M. Warfield ; with an introduction by W.S. Thayer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE. It is hoped that this small volume may fill a want in the already crowded field of medical monographs. Our attempt has been to give to the general practitioner a readable, authoritative essay on a disease which is es- pecially an outcome of modern civilization. To that end all the available literature has been freely consulted, and the newest results of experimental research and the recent ideas of leading clinicians have been summar- ized. The writer has supplemented these with results from his own experience but has thought it best not to burden the contents with case histories. The stress and strain of our daily life has, as one of its consequences, early arterial degeneration. There can be no doubt that arterial disease in the comparatively young is more frequent than it was twenty-five years ago, and that the mortality from dis- eases directly dependent on arteriosclerotic changes is increasing. Fortunately, the al-