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An inquiry into the symptoms and causes of the syncope anginosa, commonly called angina pectoris; illustrated by dissections / By Caleb Hillier Parry.

  • Caleb Hillier Parry
Date:
1799
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Credit: An inquiry into the symptoms and causes of the syncope anginosa, commonly called angina pectoris; illustrated by dissections / By Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we INTRODUCTION. Such an enquiry will unavoidably involve me in the necessity of pointing out what appear to me the mistakes of some of my medical brethren, in their nosological judgment of this disease. In a personal view, this is adisagreeable task. But when I consider that truth is the sole foundation of moral and religious virtue, and therefore of happiness, my regard to personal delicacy is lost in the more general and greater obligation of publick utility. In reality, it is of little import- ance who is the difcoverer of truths, however valuable. To mankind it suffices that the truth is atually known, and the good obtained. The substance of the following Essay was ori- ginally read to a Medical Society* in Glocester- * ‘This little society, which met thrice annually during several years, at Rodborough in Glocestershire, and other places, for the united purposes of conviviality and improvement in medical science, consisted only of the following persons; Dr. Hickes, of Bristol; Dr. Jenner, of Cheltenham; Dr. Ludlow, of Corsham; Mr. Paytherus, of Norfolk-street, London; and the author of these pages. We were all virtually’ either {chool-fellows or fellow-students. The two last are to me comparatively of late acquaintance—of about twenty years: but they have been en- deared to me by private and professional merits, and by habits of reciprocal obligation. Of the two first it is sufficient to say that they have been my friends for almost twice that period, acquired.in the gay morning of my life, and faithfully preserved during various changes of place and fortune. My heart glows, while I pay them the tribute of esteem, which is justly due to their worth and unabated affection. shire.
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