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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    ea by the diaphragm, and partly by the con tration of the ftomach, the refiftance from above being now greater from the patient - being at reft. Thofe fame means, together with the patient’s inftinctive exertions, pro- bably force open the conftrifion of the } gullet wherever it may happen to be, when the air is difcharged gradually and copioufly by eru€tations. As foon as this is the cafe, the ftomach becomes lefs and lefs diftended; and, of courfe, the diaphragm, . after having overcome all refiftance, and fo having arrived at a complete contraGtion, returns with the intercoftal mufcles and ribs to a natural ftate: when the cavity of the breaft being reftored to its fmalleft capacity, the accumulated air is expelled, and fo the fit is terminated. It is obferved in the defcription, that if the patient proceed in his walk before every fymptom of the fit is gone, another D will