No vital statistics are available for the Bantu of South Africa, and knowledge of their disease pattern is dependent on clinical impressions and on examination of hospital material, which is, of necessity, selected. The numerous fallacies involved in the interpretation of hospital statistics, especially for heart disease, have recently been reviewed by Mainland (1). Unfortunately, however, such...

The electrocardiograms of i95 patients (78 Coloured and II7 Bantu) presenting with congestive cardiomyopathy have been studied. The tracings had a fairly uniform pattern showing left ventricular hypertrophy in every case, frequent left atrial enlargement, the absence of right ventricular hypertrophy, and the rarity of right axis deviation in the absence ofpulmonary embolism. A study of the cond...

and others, the primary goal in the study of partial reduplication has been to construct a theory that insightfully captures the full range of considerations that speakers may invoke in determining how a reduplicant will relate to its base. Given that both phonology and morphology are potentially involved, this has meant two things. First, there has been an attempt to characterize the reduplica...

The 12-year-old patient stated that she had been completely well until five months before her visit to this Clinic on January 29, 1963. At that time her ankle and elbow joints had become painful and swollen. A few days later she developed sudden severe precordial pain which lasted about 12 hours and was associated with sweating and breathlessness. She was admitted to another hospital where her ...