Vascular Diseases

REVIEW OF SOME OF THE RECENT LITERATURE BY DR. VAN DELLEN AND DR. SCUPHAM The present review of vascular diseases was compiled from the available literature accumulating between June 1, 1941 and June 1, 1942. A special effort was made to consider those articles which contributed new information, supplemented or confirmed present concepts or offered reasonable explanation of certain phenomena known to exist. This review should not be considered complete, as many deserving articles have undoubtedly been missed. Whenever possible, recognized omissions are usually corrected in a succeeding review. Articles on the dicoumarin 3,3'-methylenebis-4-hydroxycoumarin were not included in this review. They will be considered next year along with many unpublished papers on this drug now known to exist. The Nomenclature Committee of the Section for the Study of the Peripheral Circulation of the American Heart Association 1 published a list of preferred and universal terms for designating diseases and abnormalities