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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN FROGS AND DOGS

HORACE G. SCOTT, M.D.; A. C. IVY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1932;49(2):227-233.

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The impression that visceral excitation may produce reflex alteration of cardiac activity is rapidly gaining ground in the clinical literature. Occasionally, even the death of the patient has been attributed to such a reflex disturbance. Of all the viscera that may influence the heart reflexly, the gallbladder and the biliary passages have been most suspected. Osier¹ and Albutt² cited instances in which patients died during gallstone colic and ascribed the death to reflex vagal inhibition. Others³ have commented on the relation of cardiac arrhythmia to gallstone colic. Several writers⁴ have reported a series of cases showing that myocarditis and cholecystitis are so frequently associated that some meaning for the association probably exists. Babcock,⁵ Mayo,^" Strauss and Hamburger⁷ have reported cases of cardiac disorders in which improvement occurred after operation was performed on the biliary tract.

That cardiac irregularities may be induced reflexly from visceral excitation is supported . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, May 11, 1931.

This investigation has been aided by a grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

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