Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    VI. A Cafe of the Angina Pedtoris, with an Attempt to invefigate the Caufe of the Difeafe by DiJfeSiion, and a Hint fuggefed concerning the Me¬ thod of Cure. By Dr. Haygarth, of Chefter. , Read at the COLLEGE, Nov. n, 1773* ON Feb. 25, 1773, I was de- fired to vifit a gentleman 48 years of age, rather corpulent, fhort necked, of a fedentary life, and much employed in writing. He had a pain in the middle of his fternum, fo violent, as to occafion conftant and loud com¬ plaints, with perpetual jadfcation in hopes of gaining relief by a change of pofture. The pain was neither in- creafed by infpiration, deglutition, the adtion of the pe&oral mufcles, nor ex¬ ternal preflure on the part; he had no cough. He informed me that for three weeks he had felt a pain in this D 3 part S