An inaugural dissertation on angina pectoris / [Henry Bogart].

  • Bogart, Henry, -1817.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on angina pectoris / [Henry Bogart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease, the first symptom of which is an acute pain or stricture, commencing in the region of the sternum, and shooting, with peculiar pun- gency, in the direction of the pectoral muscle, confining itself chiefly to the left side, and sometimes affecting the left arm.^ In two cases recorded of this disease, the sensation in the superior extremities was compared, by the pa¬ tients, to the rushing of a hot fluid ; very often it is that of a numbness only: it is generally noticed when the disorder is considerably ad¬ vanced, though sometimes it is altogether ab¬ sent; being by no means, as Dr. Parry observes, essential to angina pectoris. The patient is usually seized in this manner while walking, or on going up an acclivity. Though the pain is violent,and comes on suddenly,yet it generally is of short duration, and, in some instances, hardly engages the attention of the patient. * In twelve or thirteen persons, whom Dr. Wall had seen, the pain was in the direction of this muscle, affecting one, or commonly, both the arms. It is remarked by Dr. Heberden, that a soreness has been felt in these parts. 4