Cases of organic diseases of the heart. With dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases. Read before the Counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society / By John C. Warren.

  • Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Cases of organic diseases of the heart. With dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases. Read before the Counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society / By John C. Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    symptoms of his disease almost disappeared. Dur¬ ing this session he made little complaint, dictated many important communications, and attended to all the duties of his office, without neglecting the most minute. As soon as the legislature adjourned, he declared, that his work was finished, and that he had no desire to remain longer in this world. He entreated that no farther means should be used to prolong his existence, and immediately yielded him¬ self to the grasp of disease, which appeared waiting with impatience to inflict its agonies. From this moment the distressing difficulty of breathing had very slight remissions. The conse¬ quent disposition to incline the superior part of the body forward, for the purpose of facilitating respi¬ ration, increased so much, that he frequently slept with his head reposed on his knees. The cough became occasionally very violent, and was always attended with an expectoration of a brown coloured mucus, sometimes tinged with blood. The abdo¬ minal viscera lost their activity. The face was some¬ times turgid and high coloured, at other times pallid and contracted. A gradual abolition of the powers of the mind ensued, with a low delirium, and two short fits of phrenzy. The state of the circulation was very variable ; the pulse at the wrists principally hard and vibrating, rarely soft and compressible; the less pulsations becoming more indistinct, and at length scarcely perceptible. No perfectly distinct beat of the heart was felt, but a quick undulating motion,, not corresponding with the pulse at the ✓ •