. Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner. auricle in the typical drop heart is indicated also by a dottedline. The angles or notches of the left border are exaggerated as compared with the usualroentgenographic picture. Such hearts obviously must be so modified by the effectsof valvular diseases and myocardial degenerations as to largely lose their decided visceroptosis is present, whatever the apparent or actual heart lesion,a drop heart may be assumed as having existed primarily. THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART 429 In order that the relatively small size of
. Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner. auricle in the typical drop heart is indicated also by a dottedline. The angles or notches of the left border are exaggerated as compared with the usualroentgenographic picture. Such hearts obviously must be so modified by the effectsof valvular diseases and myocardial degenerations as to largely lose their decided visceroptosis is present, whatever the apparent or actual heart lesion,a drop heart may be assumed as having existed primarily. THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART 429 In order that the relatively small size of the average normal heart maybe the better appreciated, the author has inserted the tabulation of Dr. Data and Measurements of the Hearts of Soldiers Examined 174162164183174170 No. Weight Kg. Height Cm. Age Yrs. Transverse diameter Cm. 1 53 157 21 134 3 54 164 40 12 .0 5 55 158 29 8 5656 173 2427 1011 57 57 160168 1924 1516 5858 168170 17 59 J75 19 Rule of thumbinapplicable. 13-313-3 62 65 177 28 64 65 168 20 66 65 176 21 68 65 172 27 69 65 170 23 72 66 164 27 135 74 66 167 26 77 67 161 25 14-5 78 67 173 29 79 67 167 25 13-7 81 67 I7S 23 82 67 167 26 430 MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS Alfred E. Cohn of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research* very slightly abbreviated Data and Mi . of the Hearts of Soldiers Examined Transverse Xo. Weight Kg. Height Cm. Age Yrs. diameterCm. 83 67 175 28 84 67 168 27 85 67 169 23 13 2 86 67 170 24 150 87 68 167 49 5 89 68 171 21 13-4 90 68 175 24 9i 68 174 iS 94 1 68 175 26 97 69 175 42 15-7 100 69 169 26 101 69 174 3i 103 69 177 25 106 69 172 26 108 69 180 28 - III 70 171 30 113 70 176 29 133 117 70 175 - 118 70 175 18 130 119 71 172 22 137 122 71 170 29 123 71 177 34 13-3 125 71 178 23 126 71 172 23 127 72 179 24 129 7 2 174 22 132 72 174 20 v
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