Samuel A. Levine and his World War I experience
1988; Elsevier BV; Volume: 62; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0002-9149(88)90899-5
ISSN1879-1913
AutoresCharles F. Wooley, John M. Stang,
Tópico(s)Neurology and Historical Studies
Resumohe development of medical thought about mitral valve prolapse, mitral valvular regurgitation and the floppy, myxomatous mitral valve may be traced through nineteenth century concepts about functional heart disease,' systolic clicks and apical systolic murmurs,* irritable heart3 and Da Costa's syndrome4q5 into the twentieth century when "soldier's heart,"@ effort syndrome,9 disordered action of the heart and neurocirculatory astheniaiO were described during World War I.During World War I the British "soldier's heart" experience at the "Heart Hospital" in England-stimulated by Mackenzie,6 Allbutt and Osler,8 and brought to fruition by Lewis,9 Parkinson and associates-represented a milestone in the development of cardiology as a discipline.i i,i* William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford had written to the US President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 to stimulate participation by the US military medical services "in studying certain problems of organization."i3US participation in the Heart Hospital process was initiated when the US entered the war and US Army medical officers were assigned to the Military Heart Hospital at Hampstead and Colchester, England.lOAs part of our research into the irritable heart-mitral valve prolapse connection
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