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WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SUBACUTE BACTERIAL TYPE

B. J. CLAWSON, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1924;33(2):157-184.

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The condition of the heart valves included in the term subacute bacterial endocarditis has within the last fifteen to twenty years created much interest. As early as 1885, Osler¹ described this condition in what he called malignant endocarditis. Horder² and Billings³ described it, in 1909, under the heading of infective endocarditis. Endocarditis lenta was the term used by Schottmüller⁴ in 1910, and in the same year the term subacute bacterial endocarditis was first used by Libman and Celler.⁵ Munzer⁶ and Ruggeri⁷ used the term slow endocarditis. Various phases of the subject have been considered in France by Achard and Rouillard,⁸ Debré,⁹ and others; in Germany by Schottmüller,⁴ Munzer,⁶ Hassencamp¹⁰ and Moravitz;¹¹ in England by Lewis,¹² Horder,¹³ Poynton,¹⁴ Boyd,¹⁵ Cotton,¹⁶ Combs,¹⁷ Gibson,¹⁸ Gow¹⁹ and Starling;²⁰ in Canada by Murray and Lougheed;²¹ and in the United States by Libman and Celler,⁵ Baehr and Lande²² and others.

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Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS

From the Department of Pathology, University of Minnesota.

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