Excerpt from The Denver Medical Times, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal of Medical, Surgical and Obstetrical Science; March 1883

As to inheritance nothing is known. Haveraux was an unmarried man, his occupation being that of a soldier. The bearing of this ocen patiou as a cause of aneurism is very important. Mr. Myers, of Lon don, gave the statistics of inspector-general Lawson, (army [medical Report, which showed, that the deaths from aortic aneurism were eleven times greater in the army than among the civil population and be accounted for this great disproportion by the tightness of the dress and the accoutrements of the soldier, occasioning greatly increased blood-pressure within the aorta during any violent exercise, by compress ing the great vessels of the neck and upper extremities, The same writer is authority for the statement, that among soldiers, aortic valve disease is twice as frequent as mitral, while in civil life, mitral disease is slightly more frequent than aortic. In addition to the greater blood pressure and physical strain due to his occupation, (and it could hardly be considered as lessened by his change to a stone mason), it is reason able, I think, to infer that such an active life in these great altitudes may have had an additional influence in producing aneurism because of the greater strain altitude brings for tire lzeartand blood vessels. The ner vous tension, due to an exciting climate like this, would certainly not. Lessen the influence mentioned, and the drying up effect of the atmos phere and the alkaline quality of the drinking water, etc., would seem to favor calcareous deposits where atheroma is in progress, as was the case in this subject. It has seemed to me, indeed, that the calcification of tubercle was promoted, and the ossification of arterial walls hastened by the conditions mentioned as characteristic of this elevated plateau.

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