This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (33)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Report on a Study of a Familial Tendency, 1920-1956

WILLIAM L. GOULD, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;100(6):916-926.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In 1891 a young Jewish tailor, Case 4,* emigrated to this country from Russia with his wife and began the prologue to a unique chapter in medical history. This young man settled in Albany, N. Y., established himself as a tailor, fathered a family of five children, and later helped to bring his parents and 10 sisters and brothers from Russia. These few facts about this person seem typical enough of the 19th-century immigrant, but he is of particular importance from the physician's viewpoint because he is the keystone of a continuing 36-year study of a familial tendency toward auricular fibrillation.

The Study

A survey of all the medical literature on this subject produced descriptions of occurrences of auricular fibrillation among only two families,^1,2 both dealing with males within one generation—the first three brothers and the second two brothers. This study now being reported of 113 males and females . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Albany, N. Y.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 13, 1956.

Chief of Staff, Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged, Troy, N. Y.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?