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RECOGNITION of the importance of humoral balance in the body originated in the work of Claude Bernard (1855) and was developed later mainly by Cannon (1915) and Recent myocardial infarction (MI) has been reported to elicit humoral disturbances which, a little more than a decade ago, were not considered of importance. The recognition that they may influence the clinical course of the disease came in recent years as a consequence of better understanding of the complex character of MI and the nature of its complications.
L Ceremuźyński (Mon,) studied this question.