Some Sequels to Myocardial Infarction and their Treatment

In no country with a National Heart Foundation are the citizens likely to be allowed to remain ignorant of the ravages of coronary artery disease.Doctors, of course, whatever branch of medicine they practise, are all too familiar with its problems.So, in Australia at any rate, are students, for sufferers from the disease provide a fair proportion of patients in teaching hospitals.In a recent survey in the Royal Melbourne Hospital we found that one-quarter of the occupants of general medical teaching beds had, as their main diagnosis, coronary disease, cerebral vascular disease, or peptic ulcer, and coronary disease was the commonest of these.