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DAVID AYMAN, M.D.; JOSEPH H. PRATT, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1931;47(5):675-687.

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SOME PRESENT-DAY CONCEPTS OF THE SYMPTOMS

Two Groups of Symptoms.

—With the increasing evidence¹ for the view² that essential arterial hypertension occurs first and organic changes in the arterioles are a sequence, there has developed the belief that these apparently successive pathologic states are accompanied by separate groups of symptoms. These may be termed the early and the late group of symptoms, the former being associated with the stage of pure arterial hypertension and the latter developing as a result of the vascular changes. Rolleston expressed the belief that the early and late symptoms, which differ in character, differ also in etiology.³ It is important, therefore, for prognosis and study to distinguish between the so-called early and late symptoms. Sir Clifford Allbutt recognized this distinction, for, in his discussion of the symptom of dyspnea, he said that it "is a very late symptom. We are in the fifth act."⁴ Of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Medical Clinic of the Boston Dispensary and the Division of Research.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 11, 1930.

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