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Treatment of Hypertension: Part I. Pathogenic Considerations and Older Methods of Therapy

Authors: EDWARD W. DENNIS, M.D., JOHN H. MOYER, M.D.

Abstract

The management of hypertension is a responsibility encountered daily by most physicians. A rapidly expanding group of drugs has been offered for treatment in recent years, accompanied by a great volume of literature. The review of this subject seems necessary to clarify the confusion about drugs which is almost certain to be in the mind of the doctor who does not have the time nor the journals available to study the subject of drug therapy critically or at first hand.

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