The etiology of hypertension is still a moot subject among all thoughtful clinical observers. The views of such workers as Bright, Gull and Sutton, Allbutt, Mahomed, von Basch, and Volhard and Fahr mark the beginnings of a rational appreciation of the underlying basis of those hypertensial states grouped together as vasculo-renal disease, but a satisfactory explanation of the fundamental phenom...

T HE occasional development of nephrosclerosis as a late sequel of rheumatic fever has been suggested by Fahr.1 2 But Fahr did not follow up this observation with detailed microscopic examinations, and the question remained unsettled as to the significance of the coarsely granular renal surface, often interrupted by deep depressions (infarcts). The histologic observations reported below reveale...

Involvement of the heart in hypothyroidism (myxcedema heart disease) was first recorded by Zondek in 1918. Since then attention has been focused on the histological characteristics of the cardiac lesion and the clinical manifestations of myxcedema heart disease (Fahr, 1925; Campbell and Suzman, 1934; Means, 1937; Fournier, 1942; Bustamante et al., 1955; Hamilton and Greenwood, 1957). Myocardial...