. Diseases of the heart and thoracic aorta. t is important toremember that remedies which give increased strength to theheart are injurious, in so far as they favour an increasedquantity of blood being expelled from the cardiac cavity intothe sac of the pericardium. Stimulants should only, therefore,be administered in those cases in which the collapse threatensto prove fatal. WAXY DEGENERATION OF THE HEART. Waxy degeneration of the heart, which is not very un-common in cases in which the lardaceous change is widelydistributed throughout the body, has recently been describedby Professor D. J. H
. Diseases of the heart and thoracic aorta. t is important toremember that remedies which give increased strength to theheart are injurious, in so far as they favour an increasedquantity of blood being expelled from the cardiac cavity intothe sac of the pericardium. Stimulants should only, therefore,be administered in those cases in which the collapse threatensto prove fatal. WAXY DEGENERATION OF THE HEART. Waxy degeneration of the heart, which is not very un-common in cases in which the lardaceous change is widelydistributed throughout the body, has recently been describedby Professor D. J. Hamilton ; but since it is not characterisedby any distinctive cardiac symptoms or signs, and is of patho-logical rather than of clinical importance, it is unnecessary torefer to it in detail here.^ NEW GROWTHS IN THE HEART. ^Etiology and Pathology. — The heart is occasionallythe seat of new growths ; primary tumours are extremelyrare, secondary deposits (more especially cancerous and ^ Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Oct. 1883, p.
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