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A REVIEW OF SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE DURING 1942

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ASHTON GRAYBIEL, U.S.N.R.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;71(5):713-737.

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ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND METHODS

Beginning with the thesis that there must be full agreement between the structure and the function of the heart, Robb and Robb¹ have briefly, yet cogently, correlated the results of certain anatomic and physiologic studies. They point out that anatomists have repeatedly demonstrated that the ventricles of mammalian hearts are made up of discrete muscle bands and that the origin, the course and the attachments of these separate muscles are also fairly well known. These views, however, are not compatible with the assumption, held by many investigators, that the whole heart is one syncytium. If this were absolutely true, the Robbs point out, the findings of the anatomists would have to be considered artefacts. Further proof of the view that the cardiac musculature is indeed composed of distinct muscles is seen in (1) the specific functions of the several ventricular muscles, (2) the individual blood . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
With the Editorial Assistance of Paul. D. White, M.D. boston

From the School of Aviation Medicine, Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla., and the Cardiac Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Footnotes
The opinions and views set forth in this article are those of the writer and are not to be considered as reflecting the policies of the United States Navy Department.

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