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Identifier: diseasesofchestp1920norr (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the chest and the principles of physical diagnosis
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Norris, George William, 1875-1965 Landis, Henry R. M. (Henry Robert Murray), 1872-1937, joint author Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966
Subjects: Chest Diagnosis Thoracic Diseases Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Fig. 42. Fig. 43. Figs. 42 and 43.—Referred cardiac pain. Showing the area of pain and cutaneoushyperesthesia requently met with in angina pectoris. The segmental distribution (thirdcervical, to the third dorsal) is indicated by the Roman numerals. Other segments may,however, be involved, the sixth dorsal causing epigastric pain, and the upper cervical roots,pain in the neck and back of the head. The characteristic sense of thoracic constriction hasbeen explained as resulting from reflex stimulation of the intercostal muscles, and the senseof impending dissolution has been likened to the violent stimulation of the nervous systemproduced by excitation or injury of other viscera, as by a blow on the testicles or over thesolar plexus. (Mackenzie.) In pulmonary disease cutaneous hyperalgesia occurred in 3 per cent, of the 460 cases studied byLangstroth and in 13 per cent, of those who complained of pain. In disease of the heart and aorta thehyperalgesia was noted in 7 per cent.; and in

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