The Canadian Medical Review Vol 7 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Canadian Medical Review, Vol. 7: March, 1898 IN this short paper I shall limit myself to a discussion of the cardiac weakness and dilatation which result from senile changes or rather from those conditions and in uences which affect patients in the latter half of life. Balfour has referred to the fact that the heart is one of the organs which under normal conditions is least affected by old age. The liver and kidneys may undergo senile atrophy When the heart may present little change other than a slight increase in the thickness of the wall of the left ventricle. It must be remembered that the condition of the normal old man, if I may be permitted to use that term, is one of health and not disease. An old man of ninety-two whom I frequently see often, exclaims: I am astonished that I feel so well, never better in my life. There are, however, many circumstances in the life of the busy man which, acting upon the heart, produce greater or less dilatation. Among the most frequent of these are depressing mental emotions, which may produce their effects gradually or suddenly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."