It has been assigned as one of the causes of early atheroma and of angina pectoris.
Bloodletting is currently being tested as a treatment for those suffering from angina or heart attacks.
In connexion with angina pectoris, a far more common condition must be mentioned that has now universally received the name of pseudo-angina.
An attack of angina pectoris usually comes on with a sudden seizure of pain, felt at first over the region of the heart, but radiating through the chest in various directions, and frequently extending down the left arm.
In true angina there is some condition within the heart which starts the stimulus sent to the nerve centres.
An attack of pseudo-angina may be agonizing, the pain radiating through the chest and into the left arm, but the patient does not usually assume the motionless attitude of true angina, and the duration of the seizure is usually much longer.
Angina pectoris is extremely rare under middle life, and is much more common in males than in females.
The essential difference lies in the fact that pseudo-angina is independent of structural disease of the heart and coronary arteries.
In pseudo-angina the starting-point is not the heart but some peripheral or visceral nerve.
In the spring of 1867 I had opportunities of constantly observing a patient who suffered from angina pectoris, and of obtaining from him numerous sphygmographic tracings, both during the attack and during the interval.
Using to drink my wine cool’d with snow and ice, as the manner here is, I was so afflicted with the angina and soare-throat, that it had almost cost me my life.
It used to be said that this was characteristic of the organic lesions causing true angina pectoris.
Some of the deaths from fright or sorrow at a sudden announcement of the death of a relative, or even the deaths from joy are due to angina pectoris precipitated by the serious strain put upon the heart by the flood of terror or emotion.
In the chapter on Angina Pectoris attention is called to the fact that there are may forms of pseudo-angina due to cardiac neuroses consequent upon gastric disturbance and without heart lesion.
These patients sometimes suffer from pseudo-angina and still more frequently from cardiac irregularity.
The earlier attacks of true angina are practically always provoked by exertion, while spurious angina is especially liable to come on during repose.
Mirabeau, the great French orator, suffering from angina pectoris, was bled some eighty ounces in the course of forty-eight hours.
He was only operated upon for appendicitis a fortnight ago, and they say that he has angina pectoris amongst other complications.
In a few instances, angina seems to be provoked by the irritation of indigestible food, and when there is good reason to suspect this an emetic should be given.
Another occasional excitant of angina is an interesting link in the chain of proof that angina is au fond a neuralgia, namely, the malarial poison, which has in a good many well-observed cases distinctly induced the disease.
Although I have thought fit here to give an outline of angina pectoris as a connected whole, I shall have occasion to recur to the subject again under the heads of Pathology and Treatment of Neuralgias in General.
Another very important class of predisposing causes of anginais the mental emotions.
I do not believe that these diseases will causeangina in a person who is free from the peculiar nervous susceptibility.
The angina was in this case symptomatic, there being advanced valvular disease of the heart.
On the other hand, a case of angina which I saw in the country, last year, occurred in a gentleman, aged fifty, whose family presented no traceable neurotic history.
Fraser and others, but the practical application of amyl to the treatment of angina was first suggested, I believe, by Dr.
What could be more correct than this account of angina pectoris--probably the first in the literature?
Possibly it was only a case of angina Ludovici, or retro-pharyngeal abscess.
If the patient is too weak for bathing, a fomentation may be applied as described in article on Angina Pectoris, only extending, however, over the knees.
There may also be required fomenting of the feet and legs (see Angina Pectoris) to prevent chill during this cooling.
Angina Pectoris (literally, agony of the chest) is one of the worst of these.
If he feels chilly, hot fomentations to the feet and legs, as described in article on Angina Pectoris, may be applied.
The best manner of applying cold to the spine is described in article onAngina Pectoris.
If cramp has shown itself, it will be needful to cool the spinal nerves (see Angina Pectoris), but this only when you are effectually heating the limbs.
For cases where the vital action has evidently become very low, foment the patient as directed inAngina Pectoris.
You'll have angina pectoris if you don't look out.
The tonsillitis of diphtheria is sometimes termed tonsillitis diphtheritica, tonsillitis mycotica maligna; that of rheumatism, tonsillitis rheumatica, angina rheumatica, rheumatic sore throat.
The deposit in follicular or lacunar tonsillitis or angina is pulpy and not membraniform.
Exceptionally, however, there may be pain, which radiates from the stomach to the shoulders, and may pass down the left arm so as to simulate angina pectoris.
Common membranous or pseudo-membranous sore throat (angina membranosa communis) is used as a synonym for herpetic or membranous tonsillitis (tonsillitis herpetica seu membranosa).
In angina pectoris this drug has a beneficial action; it relieves the pain and distress in many cases, even when amyl nitrite and nitroglycerin have failed entirely.
Our lamented Sir James Simpson was the subject of angina pectoris.
When wakefulness is caused by angina pectoris, or by simple cardiac neuralgia, such as sometimes follows excessive use of tobacco, relief may be obtained through the exhibition of alcoholic stimulants, hydrate of chloral, or nitrite of amyl.
The paroxysms of angina pectoris became more frequent and daily left their victim less able to rally.
Four or five years before his death Father Hecker became subject to frequent attacks of angina pectoris, said to be the most painful of all diseases.
His father had died suddenly at the age of fifty-three from angina pectoris; and he himself was haunted by forebodings of an early death.
When the physician arrived, he perceived at once the gravity of the case: it was an attack of angina pectoris.
Richardson, who had described a remarkable case of angina pectoris, and had pronounced an opinion that the symptoms as described in Cook’s case presented a singular similarity to those of the strange case referred to.
I must say, there would be great difficulty in detecting the difference in the cases of angina pectoris and strychnia.
It is called angina pectoris, from its causing such extreme anguish to the chest.
Angina pectoris comes under the denomination of spasmodic diseases.
The disease of angina pectoris comes on quite suddenly, and does not give any notice of its approach.
I am of opinion that the fact of the recurrence of the second fit in Cook’s case is more the symptom of angina pectoris than of strychnia poison.
I have known persons die of a disease called angina pectoris.
There is this difference,--that rubbing the hands gives ease to the patient in cases of angina pectoris.
But we are destined to have another, and that assumed the formidable name of angina pectoris.
By Mr. Serjeant SHEE: There are cases of angina pectoris in which the patient has recovered and appeared perfectly well for a period of 24 hours, and then the attack has returned.
She has got angina pictoris or brist-pang, a disorder that admirably eximplifies the pretinsions of midicine t' seeince.
Stone-- "that Mr. Rochester declared positively that Jimmie Turnbull died from angina pectoris.
Rochester's contention that Jimmie died from angina pectoris would seem borne out by what transpired," he said.
There is no cure forangina pectoris," declared Rochester.
It was just after the Judge's announcement that 'John Smith,' then sitting in the prisoners cage, was seized with the attack of angina pectoris which ended so fatally a few minutes later.
Babs told you that I suspected Jimmie did not die from angina pectoris--" She spoke with an effort.
Because then he would have been spared the additional excitement of his trip to the police station and the scene in court, which brought on his attack of angina pectoris.
But when a man has anginapectoris he knows the end may come at any moment and in any place.
I strove to divert suspicion by insisting that Jimmie died from angina pectoris, and then you came, Helen, and demanded an autopsy.
As long as Mr. Turnbull entered your house on a wager and died from an attack of angina pectoris the inquest is likely to be a mere formality.
Because Miss McIntyre did not agree with Rochester that Turnbull had died fromangina pectoris--that is obvious, too.
Mr. Turnbull, who masqueraded as a burglar on a wager with Miss McIntyre died suddenly from angina pectoris," explained the deputy marshal.
The pain of true angina pectoris is often said to be perhaps the worst torture that humanity has to bear.
Occasionally the pain will be reflected down the left arm which used to be considered the pathognomic sign of true angina pectoris but is not.
Indeed, it has come to be looked upon as a rule by the English clinicians and heart experts that the more fuss there is made, the less likelihood there is of the affection being true angina pectoris.
There is a form of this functional disturbance of the heart which reaches a climax of power to disturb and then is sometimes spoken of as spurious angina pectoris.
The condition--which goes by the name of angina Ludovici--is usually met with in adults, and appears to originate in some infective focus in the mouth.
The acute phlegmonous peri-adenitis of the submaxillary gland, known as angina Ludovici, is referred to at p.
Portions of the tongue may become gangrenous, and the infection may spread to the tissues of the neck and set up one form of angina Ludovici.
The most different diseases, such asangina pectoris, stone in the bladder, and various affections of the skin, have appeared in successive generations at nearly the same age.
