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Patients with this lesion are likely to be children and young adults, and the heart muscle readily responds as a rule to the treatment inaugurated. Later, in these patients, or if the lesion occurs in older patients, the return to compensation does not occur so readily.
Its peculiarity is that the person knows perfectly what he wants to say, but yet can not speak the words. Then we find new variations if his "lesion" as all kinds of local nervous defects are called is in the brain centre in the Rolandic region, where arise the memories of the movements required.
Kennedy seemed to understand, as he went on: "I have tried to consider all the ways such a thing could have happened," he considered. "It is possible that air might have been introduced into the veins by a hypodermic needle or other instrument. But I find no puncture of the skin or other evidence that would support that theory. I have looked for a lesion of the lungs, but find none.
Other consultants were summoned in haste, and in the winter dawn the verdict was pronounced a fractured vertebra, and possibly lesion of the cord.... Justine got a moment alone when the surgeons returned to the sick-room.
He had brooded so long now, for months, and as yet had found no solution. And finally, in a form of religious despair, sitting at his desk, in his business chair, he had collapsed a weary and disconsolate man of seventy. A lesion of the left ventricle was the immediate physical cause, although brooding over Aileen was in part the mental one.
I am afraid there must be a lesion of the bone. Some nails passed through the flesh, did they not?" Receiving no reply, he relapsed into silence. But his surprise was increasing, and he closely examined the hand, which the flame of the explosion had scorched, and even sniffed the shirt cuff as if seeking to understand the affair better.
There is no lesion to liberty in repressing license, nor in requiring obedience to the commands of the authority that has the right to command. Tyranny or oppression is not in being subjected to authority, but in being subjected to usurped authority to a power that has no right to command, or that commands what exceeds its right or its authority.
Such irregularity perhaps most frequently occurs with valvular disease, especially mitral stenosis and in the muscular degenerations of senility, as fibrosis. Atropin has been used to differentiate functional heart block from that produced by a lesion. Jour. Med. In the first the heart block is induced by digitalis. This was entirely removed by atropin.
As he spoke, he slowly drew himself up, till he was standing erect. 'Then, in that case, all I can say is that you have a queer way of being very well. He put his hand up to his mouth, as if to hide the trembling of his lips. 'It's the pressure of overwork, I've had one or two attacks like this, but it's nothing, only a local lesion.
Fraenkel found these nodules in the myocardium in a case of chorea, showing the close relationship between it and rheumatism. While repeated careful examination of the heart during acute infections will generally show signs of endocarditis if it is present, even if there are no subjective symptoms, the disease may be so insidious as not to be noted until a valvular lesion occurs.
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