1920/03/06 by FREDERICK M. ALLEN, Frederick M. Allen
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paper · doi:10.1001/jama.1920.02620100012005
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The great importance of arterial hypertension or the conditions associated with it, as a widespread and apparently increasing cause of disability and death, is a self-evident incentive to investigation. At the same time it must be recognized that our knowledge of the subject is in a very confused state, as respects its phases of etiology, mechanism and treatment. Just as with diabetes, the literature contains almost every conceivable variety of opinions and suggestions. The first task of an investigator to choose is what seems significant and valuable among this mass of conflicting material, and the second is to build concrete facts with accurate methods in a clinical field which is still largely a morass of tradition and imagination. <h3>THEORIES REGARDING THE CAUSES OF HYPERTENSION</h3> More or less restriction of salt has been employed for many years by some observant clinicians in the treatment of the various forms of nephritis. The