8 SUPPLEMENT TO CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN MEDICINE Vol. 49, No. 4 III. HEART DISEASE 22. Peripheral The courses on heart disease are arranged and This course will deal with both venous and ar- given with the cooperation of the California Heart terial disease of the extremeties: Association, which has made available to the Com- (a) Gangrene. mittee on Postgraduate Activities moving picture (b) Buerger's disease. films, lantern slides, and statistics, as well as par- (c) Raymond's disease. ticipation in their established program of consulta- (d) . tive clinics on cardiac diagnosis. (e) Arteriovenous . (f) . 11. A Heart Clinic (g) Phlebitis. A talking motion picture in color. Heart sounds (h) Varices. synchronized with animated valves of the patho- logical specimens of the cases cited. Offered by the 23. Congestive Heart Failure California Heart Association. Demonstration of cases showing various stages of congestive failure. 12. Electrocardiography Simplified Discussion of treatment by rest, digitalis, and A motion picture showing animated drawings of diet. Convalescent care. the course of the impulse through the bundle of and the Heart His coordinated with the electrocardiogram and its 24. Vitamins interpretation. Offered by the California Heart 25. Congenital Heart Disease Association. A short discussion with lantern slide demon- 13. Cardiac Silhouettes stration of cases. Prognosis of various lesions. (Presentation of cases when available.) Demonstration of x-ray films of various types of with interpretation of films. 14. Rheumatic Heart Disease IV. DISEASES OF THE CHEST A demonstration by pathological material illus- Diseases of the chest will be presented in eight trating typical heart lesions, with presention of periods by demonstration and graphic methods. cases. 26. Epidemiology, Etiology, and Public Health 15. Syphilitic Heart Disease Aspects One of the outstanding accomplishments of the A demonstration of specimens showing lesions present century in medicine is the yielding of tuber- of the circulatory system due to syphilis. Case culosis to the measures which are being directed presentation, treatment, and prognosis. toward its prevention and care, and the differential 16. Subacute Bacterial diagnosis of other chest diseases. The first period Endocarditis will demonstrate the epidemiology, the etiology, Demonstration of specimens. Case presentation, and the public health and sociological factors of etiology, course, treatment, and prognosis. pulmonary diseases. (Lecture.) Note: The courses on diseases of the chest are 17. offered with the assistance of the California Tuber- Clinical discussion with presentation of cases. culosis Association. This Association has for a number of years held postgraduate clinics in con- 18. junction with county medical societies on the diag- Case presentation. nosis and treatment of tuberculosis. These clinics are now offered and are made available to the Com- 19. Coronary Disease mittee on Postgraduate Activities. Case presentations of illustrative cases of "an- Tuberculosis gina pectoris," and coronary . Demon- 27. Classification of Pulmonary stration and electrocardiograms of pathological The response of the body to an invasion of the specimens. tubercle bacillus for the first time is the formation of a lesion at the site of infection and in the re- 20. The Cardiac Irregularities gional lymph nodes. A first infection lesion within a month or two is followed by altered tissue re- Case demonstration of the more common types actions. Pathology will be demonstrated; child- of cardiac irregularities, with short discussion of hood type and exudative, productive and chronic etiology, prognosis, and treatment. ulcerative adult types of the disease will be depicted 21. Embolism Complicating Heart Disease by x-ray films. Etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. Indications 28. Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis for, and technique of, embolectomy will be dis- Careful study and accurate systematic physical cussed. examination of patients will be demonstrated.