Word: valvular
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Seamen last week acclaimed a blast from Newcastle-upon-Tyne against the condition in the crews' quarters of many ships. Professor Sir Thomas Oliver, 79, English authority on industrial diseases, declared that, due to insanitary quarters more sailors die of pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia and valvular heart disease than do landsmen. U. S. ships, said he, were cleanest in the world, British the worst...
...form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow to the lips of the heart valves, causing thereby valvular troubles. The toxins may cause rotting of the lobules of the liver and of certain passages of the kidneys. They are the causative agents of erysipelas...
...autopsy was held yesterday morning by Dr. W. D. Swan over the body of Curtis L. Crane, of Brookline, who died Saturday afternoon while boxing in Craige Hall. The finding of the autopsy was that the deceased dies from an enlargement of the heart produced by a chronic valvular disease in that organ. The failure of the heart happened to be co-incident with the last blow struck, but was in no way produced...