. Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . Arteriosclerosis of Peroneal Artery. (Courtesy of Lewis Gregory Cole, M. D., New York.). SENILE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS 89 hemorrhage. Occasionally an embolus blocks a vessel andprevents the nutrition of a part causing its rapid degeneration, orin the case of the lungs causing fatal dyspnea. In the case ofembolism, death may also be due to shock. General exhaustiondue to profound changes in the organs and nerves controllingmetabolism can generally be tr
. Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . Arteriosclerosis of Peroneal Artery. (Courtesy of Lewis Gregory Cole, M. D., New York.). SENILE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS 89 hemorrhage. Occasionally an embolus blocks a vessel andprevents the nutrition of a part causing its rapid degeneration, orin the case of the lungs causing fatal dyspnea. In the case ofembolism, death may also be due to shock. General exhaustiondue to profound changes in the organs and nerves controllingmetabolism can generally be traced to arteriosclerosis. The progress is normally slow but is hastened by improperliving, poor quality of food, lack of exercise and vitiated hypertrophy^ keeps pace with the impairment of thecirculation due to degeneration of the vessels. With the limitof hypertrophy is also reached the limit of tonicity. Furtherstrain results in broken compensation and dilatation and thisends in cardiac exhaustion. In the secondary arteriosclerosis, the prognosis will dependupon the cure of the primary disease and the activity of themetabolic processes. In young individuals in whom the ana-bolic processes surpass the destructive for
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