TREATMENT OF CORONARY THROMBOSIS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

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Forty-two years ago Dr. J. B. Herrick devoted approximately one minute to treatment in his well-known treatise on sudden coronary artery obstruction,1quoted in part here: "If these cases are recognized, the importance of absolute rest in bed for several days is clear. It would seem wiser to use digitalis, strophanthus, or their congeners than to follow routine practice of giving nitroglycerine or allied drugs. The hope for the damaged myocardium lies in the direction of securing a supply of blood through friendly neighboring vessels so as to restore so far as possible its functional integrity." Today, in spite of prolonged and detailed discussions of therapy, myocardial infarction cannot be consistently prevented, and we must still perforce limit our remarks largely to the management of exigent situations arising in its clinical course. This summary statement of therapy of myocardial infarction in the space allotted must be curtailed of necessity,

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