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    The Lettsomian Lectures 1900-1901 DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE HEART AND ARTERIES IN MIDDLE AND ADVANCED LIFE
    The Lettsomian Lectures 1900-1901 DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE HEART AND ARTERIES IN MIDDLE AND ADVANCED LIFE
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    The Lettsomian Lectures 1900-1901 DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE HEART AND ARTERIES IN MIDDLE AND ADVANCED LIFE

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    The Lettsomian Lectures 1900-1901 DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE HEART AND ARTERIES IN MIDDLE AND ADVANCED LIFE
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    Bruce J. Mitchell

    Bruce Mitchell was born in Massachusetts, the descendant of both early Puritan settlers and the first French to arrive in the New World. He shares his ancestors' thirst for adventure, spiritual fulfillment and their desire to reach new lands. Having spent his early adult years travelling and studying throughout Europe, North America, and Israel, he returned to his native New England fluent in several languages and well-versed in French & German literature. With multiple advanced degrees (Tufts University), a scholarly book, and several articles in his name , he has been devoting his talents to continue the long tradition of New England horror, with an Anlgo-Norse pagan twist.

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      Title: The Lettsomian Lectures 1900-1901

             DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE HEART AND ARTERIES IN MIDDLE

                    AND ADVANCED LIFE

      Author: J. Mitchell Bruce

      Release Date: September 21, 2013 [EBook #43780]

      Language: English

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      HEART DISEASE

      IN

      MIDDLE AND ADVANCED AGE

      The Lettsomian Lectures

      ON

      DISEASES AND DISORDERS

      OF THE

      HEART AND ARTERIES

      IN

      MIDDLE AND ADVANCED LIFE

      Delivered before the Medical Society of London, Session 1900-1

      BY

      J. MITCHELL BRUCE, M.A., LL.D., M.D., F.R.C.P.,

      Physician to Charing Cross Hospital; Consulting Physician to the

      Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton

      LONDON:

      HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE

      PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY

      1902

      To

      JOHN H. MORGAN, C.V.O., M.A. Oxon., F.R.C.S. Eng.

      President of the Medical Society of London, 1900-1901

      from his friend and colleague

      The Writer

      CONTENTS

      THE LETTSOMIAN LECTURES

      1900-1901

      LECTURE I.

      Mr. President and Gentlemen,—My first duty this evening is to thank you, which I do most heartily and gratefully, for the honour you have done me by selecting me to deliver the Lettsomian Lectures for the present year. My second duty is to spend as little time as possible on preliminary remarks, for—as you, Sir, know, having yourself occupied this distinguished place on a former occasion—three hours are all too brief for useful presentation of material which one has collected for a purpose like the present. In selecting the subject of my Lectures I was mindful of the character and objects of this Society. In the Medical Society of London there is a fuller blending of men engaged in family practice with men holding hospital appointments than is the case at most of the other learned societies connected with our profession in London; and there is here an opportunity for free communication of experience and interchange of opinion between these two classes of our Fellows which cannot fail to be profitable to both. Therefore, I have taken up a subject of thoroughly practical interest; and not only this, but I will attempt to present it to you, to put you in a position to look at it, from the point of view of the practitioner. The problem of the diseases and disorders of the heart and arteries in middle and advanced life may be said to come before the family practitioner every hour of his work, and to offer difficulties and create a sense of responsibility or even anxiety which are not sufficiently appreciated by the hospital physician. There comes before him the case of one of his patients, an active business man of 45, who has been seized with angina pectoris when hurrying to the station after breakfast, or that of an old friend, whose proposal for an increase of his insurance at 50 has been declined because of arterial degeneration and polyuria; or he is asked to say whether a man of 60, occupying an important and possibly distinguished position in the community, ought to retire from public life because he has occasional attacks of præcordial oppression and a systolic murmur at the base of his heart. What, again, is he to do for the stout, free-living man, just passing the meridian of life, who consults him for weakness and depression, whose heart is large and feeble, and the urine saccharine and slightly albuminous? There is not one of my audience who has not met with such cases as these many times in his practice, and a variety of other cases of cardiac disorder and disease after 40, where the importance of the individuals, the value of their lives, and the gravity of their complaints and their prospects have exercised him very anxiously. What is the prognosis in cases of this order? What can be done for them in the way of treatment? These are the questions which we would desire to answer usefully. The answer, it seems to me, can be given only after an analysis and study of a considerable number of instances of the kind, in respect of their origin, their clinical characters and course, and the result. This is the method of inquiry which I propose to follow. It will be a study of cardio-vascular disease in older subjects from the clinical point of view, and it will be approached not only from the ordinary clinical side as it is approached in hospitals, that is, by an investigation of symptoms and signs, but also and especially in the light of that particular order of knowledge which the family practitioner has learned to appreciate and has so intimate an opportunity to acquire correctly—a knowledge of the origin or causes of the different affections, which it is always difficult, and often impossible, for the hospital physician to ascertain. For the same reason, although, to be complete, a study of the diseases of the circulation at and after middle life should include an account of the post-mortem characters found in fatal cases, and whilst the basis of the account I submit to you will be essentially pathological, I shall not attempt to describe the pathological anatomy and histology of this group of lesions of the heart and arteries. This part of the subject has been remarkably advanced during the last few years; and even if I had the time and the necessary knowledge to deal with it now, I should have nothing original in it to lay before you. Indeed, if I may venture to say so, our attention lately has been too much confined to the pathological states of the heart and arteries and too little directed to the causes which produce them. Arterial sclerosis is now an ordinary diagnosis in every-day practice, as if it were sufficient for purposes of prognosis and treatment to have determined that the radial artery is thicker and longer and more dense than normal, without regard to the actual nature of the pathological change, whether strain, or syphilitic, or gouty, or otherwise.

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