GREAT REDUCTION IN HEART SIZE ATTENDING THE CLEARING OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN A MAN WITH HYPERTENSIVE AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE

T H E treatment of many patients with cardiac dropsy has been discouraging in the past in spite of the use of digitalis and mercurial diuretics which oftentimes give striking temporary improvement. In the majority of patients with con-gestive failure resulting from hypertensive and coronary heart disease, however, experience has shown that edema and dyspnea return with monotonous regularity even t…