THE HEART.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 80, 24 May 1911, Page 4

THE HEART.

Discus:.-,dig bear) failure at the Maya! College of Physicians, Condon, !)r. .iames .Mackemdo said that it was. characteristic of the human mind to attribute to malign inllnences phenomena which were obscure in their origin ani which were assumed to be unnatural. The significance of the Irrercgnlar action of the hcait was misunderstood. 1: regnlarit i"s and murmurs failed so frequently in the soaag were evidence neither of disease nc.l 1 Hr city, but of mvaial phenomena, and in many cases cf a p aTectiy healthy heart. He had never seen in the twenty-eight years he. had been in gcnei.ii. prat tice a single case of heart failure from functional affections (,i

! I.:: -I V. U<! '.V; t.' l l i.c wa' 1 d-allii:.; I ,1: iievr:y day d:aiimm .v;.ii j the ;ai’;j."cL, Hu*;.- found that irrcgnlv i . :■.;:•]! of the beau v. ;t:; I.up. a/ y | the profession evidence ri :i fills heart impairment. A Her watching such individuals for a long pari > ! of years ho could say that the great majority were in no (hinder, the ii regularities wore of no grave sigmacanee, and treatment was unnecessary. Tito present day conception of hrr.rt failure rested upon an unsatisfactory basis.