- CA OSLER P111-1-8-16
- Item
- 19 January 1940
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding discrepancies in statistics
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding discrepancies in statistics
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
“It is with greatest mortification that I have to write you and tell you that the condition about which I wrote to you in my previous letter was a mistake…”
Arthur, R. Abel. – Orange Memorial Hospital, New Jersey
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
“Recently a congenital anomaly found at autopsy was described to me. Since the heart was not removed I can only describe the findings. The infant which was cyanotic at birth, breathed with great difficulty and died within twenty-four hours with signs of cardiac failure. At autopsy the heart muscle was congested and the heart itself was moderately dilated…the only abnormal finding was in the pulmonary artery where above each sinus of valsalva there was a long narrow slit extending cleanly through the wall of the pulmonary artery…”
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
One letter and two pages of 15 cases relating to “Acute Endocarditis in Early Infancy.”
From: Thomson, K. Jefferson. – Metro. Life Ins. Co. Sanatorium
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Regarding statistics for above mentioned paper
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“I am very much interested to learn of your unusual case of left coronary artery opening into the right auricle by a wide orifice…”
Gross, Paul. – The Western Pennsylvania Hospital
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Regarding “I am preparing an analysis of the literature on so called fetal endocarditis…I should like to quote you in regard to this question. It is my belief that you found focal myocardial fibrosis in certain developmental cardiac anomalies…”
Holt, Jr., L. Emmett. – The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Inquiring if Abbott stated in one of her monographs that “instances have been observed in which the mother suffering from rheumatic fever has given birth to a child who has shown signs of rheumatic endocarditis.”
Part of Maude Abbott Collection