Congenital affections of the heart / by George Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, George, 1859-1910.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Congenital affections of the heart / by George Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    text-books in chemistry or what not present at their termination mental exercises in the shape of problems for solution, but with the distinc- tion in this book that a correct solution is im- possible, short of an autopsy; questionable they are, doubtful they must remain. A loud systolic bruit of greatest intensity over the left base is in childhood almost certainly due to some congenital affection of the heart. Very rarely indeed are the healthy pulmon- ary valves organically attacked in extra-uterine life. Anaemic bruits have already been mentioned, and any intense bruits in childhood from this cause and at this orifice are practically unknown. Soft and low systolic murmurs over the left base, rarely the right, occurring in infants and children are occasionally heard. These, how- ever, are in no wise so accentuated, so definite, so obtrusive in them as the pulmonary bruit due to organic disease. The soft murmur is usually followed by a pulmonary reduplicated second sound. 7