The Influence of Venous Filling on the Heart
Authors: MORRIS H. KAHN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1930)

Article1 April 1930The Influence of Venous Filling on the HeartMORRIS H. KAHN, A.M., M.D.MORRIS H. KAHN, A.M., M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-3-10-969 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONThe functional capacity of the heart is a subject of importance from the purely physiological standpoint. Originally, a short contractile tube as in the perivisceral cavity of an ascidian, it is neither structurally nor functionally much entangled with the creature's other organs. But in higher types in which this simple tube is replaced by closed arterial and venous systems ramifying in every organ, we find that the circulatory apparatus has become structurally interwoven with the whole body. And it has become unable properly to fulfill its office without the help of offices that are quite separated from its own,...References1 KAHN MH: Functional Diagnosis, Chap. iv. W. F. Prior and Co., New York, 1920. Google Scholar2 HENDERSONHAGGARD : J. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap., 1918, xi, 189 Google Scholar3 KAHN MH: Am. Jour. Med. Sc., 1919, clviii, 823. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4 BAINBRIDGE FA: J. Physiol., 1914-1915, xlix, pp. xlv. Ibid., 1915-1916, 1, 65. Ibid., 1920-1921, liv, 192. Google Scholar5 SASSAMIYASAKI : J. Physiol., 1920-1921, liv, 203. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6 OSBORNE WA: J. Physiol., 1920-1921, liv, pp. c. Google Scholar7 STARLINGPATTERSON : J. Physiol., 1913-1914, xlviii, pp. 357. Google Scholar8 DONNELL : Cited by BARTON, Manual of Vital Function, 1917. Google Scholar9 SCHAPIRO : Russk Vratch, 1903, ii, #10-11. Google Scholar10 HOGERSTEDTGRAUPNER : Quoted by Herz in Deutche med. Wchnschr., xxxi, 215. Google Scholar11 CABOTBRUCE : Am. Jour. Med. Sc., 1907, cxxiv, 491. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12 GEIGEL : Deutsche Arch. f. klin. Med., 1910, xciv, 31. Google Scholar13 KAHN : Am. J. Med. Sc., 1919, clvii, 634. Google Scholar14 PREVEL : Paris Med., 1917, vii, 138. Google Scholar15 GRAUPNER : Deutsche med. Wchnschr., 1906, #28, 1028. Google Scholar16 GRAUPNER : Die Messung der Herzkraft, München, 1905. Google Scholar17 LEHNDORF : Arch. f. Anat. u. Physiol., 1908, 362. Google Scholar18 BARRINGER T: Arch. Int. Med., 1916, xviii, 363, 370. Ibid., 1917, xx, 829, Ibid., 1918, xxii, 363. CrossrefGoogle Scholar19 RAPPORT : Arch. Int. Med., 1917, xix, 981. CrossrefGoogle Scholar20 WIGGERS CJ: Arch. Int. Med., 1921, xxvii, 475. CrossrefGoogle Scholar21 STARLING : J. Physiol, 1912, xliv, 206. Ibid., 1913, xlvii, 286. Ibid., 1914, xlix, 348, 357, 465. Google Scholar22 STRAUB : Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., 1914, cxv, 531. Ibid., 1914, cxvi, 409. Google Scholar23 SOCIN : Arch. f. d. ges Physiol., 1914, clx, 132. CrossrefGoogle Scholar24 DE HEER : Arch. f. d. ges. Physiol. 1912, cxlviii, 45. Google Scholar25 KAHN MH: See Ref. # 1. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York City Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 April 1930Volume 3, Issue 10Page: 969-990KeywordsHeart Issue Published: 1 April 1930 PDF downloadLoading ...