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Historical views equated infectious shock with myocardial damage; leaves open modern cardiac-vascular distinctions in acute infection.
During the last century the conception of circulatory failure in the course of acute infectious diseases has been subjected to changes in several instances. Circulatory failure of every kind has, of course, a serious influence on the action of the heart itself, and for this reason in infectious diseases it was considered in those early days (1860-95) as heart failure, and the anatomical damage of the myocardium was much investigated, especially by French authors.
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