The relative importance of valvular and muscular lesions in diseases of the heart / Solomon Solis-Cohen.

  • Solis-Cohen, Solomon, 1857-1948.
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[1901]
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    THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF VALVULAR AND MUSCULAR LESIONS IN DISEASES OF THE HEART.* SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN, M.D. Professor of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Clinical Lecturer on Medicine in Jefferson Medical College; Physician to the Philadelphia and Rush Hospitals; Consulting Physician to the Jewish Hospital, etc. PHILADELPHIA. It would be incorrect to say that the importance of affections of the myocardium has been but recently recognized; yet it is probably true that the attention of teachers and authors has been much more actively given to these affections during the last four or five years, and that among physicians not engaged in teaching or writ- ing, the subject, while not ignored, has not even yet received the attention it deserves. One reason for this is that until recently, at least, in the didactic lectures, in the clinical lectures, in the ward classes, and in the quiz room, so much stress has been laid on the diagnosis of valvular lesions and the recog- nition of cardiac murmurs that the average student leaves college with the conception of valvular murmurs and heart disease as synonymous. In post-graduate teaching I have frequently had experienced men, as well as recent graduates, report that a patient’s heart was normal because they had failed to find any valvular murmur. Furthermore, in considering the treatment • Presented to the Section on Practice of Medicine, at the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Atlantic City, N. J., June 5-8, 1900.