* We feel that the terms "Acute rheumatic fever, Acute articular rheumatism, Rheumatic pancarditis," etc., are each in themselves too limited to cover descriptively all the possible manifestations of this disease. It would seem that the term "Rheumatic D~sease" would be preferable inasmuch as this condition undoubtedly exists ducing afebrile periods. 41 on

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Despite great strides made in the field of cardiovas¬ cular surgery during the past decade, the problems posed by peripheral arterial emboli remain largely unsolved, since the emboli tend to be multiple and are often fatal. Bull1 has classified five possible sites of origin of periph¬ eral arterial emboli: (1) a central artery, such as the aorta, (2) the left side of the heart, (3) pulmonary veins, (4) the right side of the heart, and (5)