SENSIBILITY OF THE EXPOSED HUMAN HEART AND PERICARDIUM

摘要: Knowledge of cardiac and pericardial sensibility, as we have found it presented in published reports, is meager incomplete. There little agreement among the reporters to facts. This largely due, believe, scarcity opportunity for careful observation on open cavity patients who are neither narcotized, shocked nor very toxic. We recently availed ourselves an unusual investigate extensively sensory reactions exposed human heart pericardium various forms stimulation. REPORT OF CASE Our patient was a telephone linesman, aged 30, admitted University Hospital Feb. 2, 1929, with typical history, symptoms signs basal lobar pneumonia left lung three days' duration. During next twelve days disease subsided, but following day there were sharp rise