STUDIES ON DIGITALIS IN AMBULATORY CARDIAC PATIENTS

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Abstract
It is still common practice to prescribe digitalis whenever a diagnosis of heart disease is made. This indiscriminate use of the drug has introduced a great deal of confusion regarding its value and has gone a long way toward promoting the exploitation of various proprietary digitalis products, because one preparation after another is frequently tried in the hope of obtaining better results, although there is often no definite idea as to what results are to be expected. Twelve children were admitted in a period of three months to the cardiac clinic of the Hospital for Joint Diseases and in this group the following diagnoses were made: congenital heart disease, potential heart disease (there having been attacks of chorea), active carditis, and inactive heart disease with valvular lesions. Eight of these patients had received digitalis at some time prior to admission, though none had at any time, so far as could

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