"Gumma" Quotes from Famous Books
... ventricles, the trouble is quite likely to be a heart block from disease in the heart itself, in the bundle of His. If the heart is slowed as a whole, the trouble might be due to diseased arteries or pressure from a growth, a gumma, perhaps, or other brain tumor in the region of the pons Varolii or medulla oblongata; or a hemorrhage into the fourth ventricle, causing ... — DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. |