Auricular fibrillation and its relationship to clinical irregularity of the heart / by Thomas Lewis.

  • Lewis, Thomas, Sir, 1881-1945.
Date:
[1910?]
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Credit: Auricular fibrillation and its relationship to clinical irregularity of the heart / by Thomas Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Heart:’ Vol. 1, So. 4, March, V)V).\ AURICULAR FIBRILLATION AND CLINICAL IRREGULARITY ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OF THE HEART.* P,Y THOMAS LEWIS. {From the Research Laboratories, Vniversity College Hosjjiial Medical Rchool.) Contents. HISTORICAL AND INTRODUCTORY. . .. .. .. ..307 A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF COMPLETE IRREGULARITY OF THE Hp]ART .. 310 Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..310 Etiology 311 The symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . ...312 The radial pulse curves . . . . . . . . . . ...314 The venous pulse curves . . . . . . . . . . . . .316 Certain ivaves which occur in diastole . . . . . . . . 321 The electrocardiographic curves obtained by leads from the right arm and left leg. . . . . . . . . . . . COMPLETE IRREGULARITY OF THE HEAR!’ IS THE RESULT OF \UR1CUL4R FIBRILLATION .. .. .. ' 327 The irregular oscillations seen upon galvanometric curves are due to an inco-ordinate contraction of some portion of the heart; they are not a direct result of structural change in the heart, and are independent of movements of the somatic mus- culature ...... The irregular oscillations arise in the vicinity of the auricle : the ventricular electric complex in complete irregularity is of the normal form . . . . . . . . Certain deductions from the clinicid findings . . . . 3.).:> Ilio expenses connectoil with this work have been largely dofrayed by grants fiom the Roval Society and the Bril.ish Medical .Association.