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JAMA. 1999;282:1990.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 1899

Janeway notices the various phenomena of heart disease, among them the spontaneous disappearance or outgrowing by the patient of mitral insufficiency. He also notices the disappearance of the murmur of this condition in Graves' disease, the two conditions apparently being sometimes antagonistic. In his experience in private practice recovery is the rule in Graves' disease. Mitral stenosis is a disorder more often overlooked, and he has observed it in a number of cases occurring after violent exercise in high altitudes. He thinks that in about one-third of the cases one can make a probable diagnosis by listening at the back of the chest below the angle of the scapula, where a murmur is heard, though not so marked as in front. He also calls attention to the substitution of the mitral systolic murmur for the presystolic as the heart compensation is markedly disturbed. Ulcerative or infectious endocarditis . . . [Full Text of this Article]