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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    tions, may be feen in Baron Haller’s anato- mical tables, plate firit.* This laft organ, therefore, being the part chiefly affected, the proximate caufe mutt be fituated here, either in whole, or in part. The whole is not fituated here ; for, in fuch a cafe, the difeafé could not bate intervals, as the patient would certainly die of the firft attack. The moft rational predifponent caufe of gout evidently pre- fents itfelf as exifting here, namely, a too great irritability or fehfibility for it is uni- verfally allowed that a mufcle is endued ‘with an excefs of irritability when it is more than ufually prone to ation, and there-_ _ fore not fufficiently fubfervient to the power of the Will. In the difeafe before us, the whole nervous fyftem appears to be endued with too great fenfibility ; and, from what hath been juft now faid, the diaphragm is : * Icon, Anatom, Fafcicul. I. pro-