Diseases of the circulatory system are discussed by Charles F. Hoover, who writes on general considerations of cardiovascular disease and functional diseases of the heart; by A. McPhedran, who deals with the diseases of the pericardium; by Robert H. Babcock, who writes on the diseases of the myocardium; by William Osler, who writes the chapters on acute endocarditis, diseases of the arteries, on aneurism and diseases of the valves of the heart; the last in association with Alexander G. Gibson, who contributes the chapters on hypertrophy of the heart and on insufficiency and dilatation of the heart. The chapter on congenital cardiac disease is written by Maude E. Abbott; that on thrombosis, embolism and phlebitis by George Blumer, and that on the diseases of the lymphatic vessels by Aldred Scott Warthin. Of the chapters on circulatory diseases, that on congenital anomalies deserves special notice because of the large amount of
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