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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...
...Alfred Washington Adson of the Mayo Clinic reported the cure of many cases of Buerger's Disease by stripping from the affected arteries all the nerves which transmit irritating stimuli...
Last evening Mr. Hochdoerffer began his series with a very interesting translation from Buerger. This course, like most of the other courses of readings, is too apt to be unappreciated. The hour selected for the readings is a convenient one for most of us, and we fail to attend them more from carelessness than want of time. If we fully appreciated the benefit and pleasure we should derive by devoting one or two hours a week to the readings the faculty have provided for us, the attendance at them all would undoubtedly be greatly increase...