Word: buerger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blood Vessels. Two very similar diseases of the leg arteries got much consideration last week-intermittent claudication (limping) and thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's Disease). In both exercise causes intense agony. The arteries in claudication shrivel, prevent circulation. In the other case the walls of the arteries are inflamed and swollen until blood cannot get through...