Natural History of Arteriosclerosis of the Lower Extremities: Hunterian Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 22nd April 1960.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE course of arteriosclerosis has been imprecise or entirely lacking in the past. In the face of the clinical tragedies of myocardial infarction and limb amputation, the clinician's helplessness has led him to take a more gloomy view in individual patients than is warranted by the facts and in this he is supported by most written opinions. For example, Allen, Barker and Hines (1955) have said that 50 per cent. of patients are dead in three years.