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WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO VASCULARIZATION OF PERICARDIAL ADHESIONS

HOWARD B. BURCHELL, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1940;65(2):240-262.

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As disease of the coronary arteries plays such a dominant role in cutting short the productive age of man, it has long been the subject of study. The clinical observations of Morgagni, Rougnon, Heberden and Parry long preceded experimental studies on animals. During the middle of the nineteenth century several investigators, among whom were Erichsen,¹ Panum,² von Bezold and Breymann³ and Samuelson,⁴ observed the effects of ligation or embolism of the coronary arteries. The discussions were mostly concerned with the manner of the cardiac standstill, and the experiments were not designed for study of the collateral circulation in the heart. The greatest controversy arose over a manufactured term, "functional end artery," which was introduced by Cohnheim and von Schulthess-Rechberg⁵ in 1881. In the main, the difficulty arose between the anatomists, who could so clearly see the collateral vessels, and the experimental pathologists, who observed necrosisof the myocardium following ligation . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Division of Experimental Medicine, the Mayo Foundation.

Footnotes
Abridgment of a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine.

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