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(fremitus), as can be perceived on laying the hand upon the 

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so that patients may live for many years. This compensation 

 depends essentially upon hypertrophy of the myocardium ; more 

 particularly upon hypertrophy of the ventricles, in cases of 

 valvular insufficiency upon hypertrophy of the auricles in arterial 

 stenosis. 



