AN ANALYSIS OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY CASES OF ENDOCARDITIS

Abstract

The condition of the heart valves included in the term subacute bacterial endocarditis has within the last fifteen to twenty years created much interest. As early as 1885, Osler 1 described this condition in what he called malignant endocarditis. Horder 2 and Billings 3 described it, in 1909, under the heading of infective endocarditis. Endocarditis lenta was the term used by Schottmuller 4 in 1910, and in the same year the term subacute bacterial endocarditis was first used by Libman and Celler. 5 Munzer 6 and Ruggeri 7 used the term slow endocarditis. Various phases of the subject have been considered in France by Achard and Rouillard, 8 Debre, 9 and others; in Germany by Schottmuller, 4 Munzer, 6 Hassencamp 10 and Moravitz; 11 in England by Lewis, 12 Horder, 13 Poynton, 14 Boyd, 15 Cotton, 16 Combs, 17 Gibson, 18 Gow 19 and Starling; 20 in Canada by Murray and Lougheed; 21 and in the United States by Libman and Celler, 5 Baehr and Lande 22 and others. An exact agreement among workers as