Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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I TRANSACTIONS. 13 obferve, that in rnoft, if not all, the perfons whom I have attended in it, the pain under the fternum conftantly extended itfelf on each fide acrofs the breaft in the diredlion of the pedtoral mufcle, and affedted one, or com¬ monly both arms, exa&ly in the place where the mufcle is inferted into the os humeri. You mention this fym- ptom only curforily; but I have found it to be fo general, that I have been induced to place it amongft the prin¬ cipal diagnoftics.-1 have feen 12 or 13 perfons affli&ed in this manner, of which number one, who applied early in the difeafe, was relieved con- fiderably by the ufe of antimonial medicines joined with the foetid gums. He is ftill living; and goes about with tolerable eafe. Two were carried off by other difordersj all the reft died The perfon, who is the fubjeit of this paper, was a fhort, but well-made 7 man,