CONTENTS

LECTURE I.
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Introduction[1]
Natural State of Heart and Arteries after 40[3]
Causes of cardio-vascular disorder and disease[6]
Physical Stress[6]
Nervous Influences[8]
Cardiac Poisons[9]
Disturbances of Metabolism[9]
Gout[9]
Syphilis[10]
Acute specific fevers[11]
Chronic affections[11]
Complex causes[11]
Old-standing Rheumatic Lesions[13]
Family heart[14]
LECTURE II.
Clinical Characters and Course[14]
Clinical Characters and Course of Tobacco Heart[15]
Clinical Characters and Course of the Heart in Alcoholism[18]
Clinical Characters and Course of the Heart in Gout[20]
Clinical Characters and Course of the Heart in Obesity and Glycosuria[22]
Clinical Characters and Course of Cardiac Strain[23]
Clinical Characters and Course of Cardiac Strain before 40[25]
Clinical Characters and Course of Syphilis of the Heart[28]
Clinical Characters and Course of cardio-vascular disease from Nervous Strain[29]
LECTURE III.
Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment[30]
Differential Diagnosis[31]
Value diagnostically of different physical signs[33]
Value diagnostically of different symptoms[35]
Prognosis[36]
Treatment[37]
Conclusion[50]