The prevention of valvular disease of the heart : a proposal to check rheumatic endocarditis in its early stage and thus prevent the development of permanent organic disease of the valves / by Richard Caton.

  • Caton, Richard.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The prevention of valvular disease of the heart : a proposal to check rheumatic endocarditis in its early stage and thus prevent the development of permanent organic disease of the valves / by Richard Caton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PBEFACE. TT is the desire of the author to state in this volume as clearly and in as few words as he can the results of an enquiry in which he has been engaged for the last nineteen years, as these results appear to him to have some value and interest. Valvular disease of the heart has always been and still remains one of the opprobria of medicine. It is a serious cause of suffering to mankind, and will probably always continue to be incurable. The author's object has been to promote the detection of this malady in its early stage; to study the commencing pathological changes in the valves; to investigate the manner in which in a few cases a natural arrest of the disease is brought about; and to seek by artificial means to render this arrest in the early stage usual, rather than exceptional. Details of the method proposed are given, and the theory on which it is founded is explained.