“…It has been proved by anatomo-pathological observation and by the results obtained in animals during experiments designed to provoke atheroinasia th at an essential factor in atherogenesis is to be found in the deposition of fibrin in the superficial layer of the intim a (18). As further support for this theory we may consider the fact th at the lipemia which follows a fatty meal causes inhibition of fibrinolysis and thus accelerates the initial process at the expense of the arterial wall (3).…”