A treatise on the disease commonly called angina pectoris / [William Butter].

  • Butter, William, 1726-1805.
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the disease commonly called angina pectoris / [William Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a full ftomach; and fometimes in his fleep, particularly in the early hours of the morn- ing. Thofe attacks laft longer than {uch as come from exercife. It has often happened © that the fit has returned feveral times in the fame night, and whether the. patient. was afleep or awake. In thofe cafes, where ate tention has been given, the fit has been per- ceived to return at equal diftances. Even where it has happened but once in a night, it has always been at the fame hour, or nearly fo. Sometimes the fit has returned as often as the patient has attempted to move himfelf in bed; and then the. pain began at the part moft exerted in thofe movements, as the elbow; thence diffufing itfelf fo as to occafion the ufual ftoppage. Sometimes the pain has begun at the top of the head, -de- fcending commonly no farther than the re- gion of the ftomach, and with the ufual effet;