The sensory and motor disorders of the heart : their nature and treatment / by Alexander Morison.

  • Morison, Alexander (Alexander Blackhall), 1850-1927.
Date:
1914
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    PREFACE The title of this book sufficiently indicates its contents. It purports to set forth conceptions of the nature and treatment of sensory and motor disorders of the heart. Both these subjects have, during the last three decades, received much attention, and the observations, suggestions, and conclusions given in the following pages are based upon an experience extending over more than thirty years. Views of the nature of cardiac sensibility and motion have, during some portion of this period, owing to anatomical and physiological research and the introduction of additional methods of examination both in the laboratory and at the bedside, undergone considerable change. The writer, there¬ fore, does not consider the space he has devoted to this aspect of the questions involved excessive; nor does he expect the views expressed by himself, which are rather con¬ servative, to be endorsed by all. They will probably be considered too mechanical by some, and the share he ascribes to the nervous system, in its relation both to cardiac sensibility and motion, greater than the data at present acknowledged by physiologists warrant. He is content to leave the determina¬ tion of this point to the future, without abating his conviction that the role of the nervous system in these respects has been unduly minimized by those who differ from him. The clinical methods which he has chiefly employed are those of inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, and pathological investigation, to mention which is to recall names which may in time be obscured by those of others pursuing different methods, but which he is inclined to believe will survive for some time to come. The graphic method has, however, also been used to illustrate some points, but the value of diagnosis and prognosis by photography has not been emphasized. The data given by the latter processes are, with few and unimportant exceptions, more conveniently