An essay on angina pectoris / by John Henry M'Farlane.

  • M'Farlane, John Henry.
Date:
1806
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Credit: An essay on angina pectoris / by John Henry M'Farlane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The same gentleman observed in the same case, a dry and very distressing cough, which suddenly made its approach, and after harassi ig the patient for many hours, as suddenly left him. I deem it unnecessary to pursue this part of my subject any farther, for the reasons before mentioned, and shall proceed to lay before the reader, the principal marks of or- ganic injury, as they appear on dissection. These are : First, In the heart. A cartilaginous, indurated, or ossified state of the coronary arteries, («) Preternatural hardness of the heart, (b) Uncommon fatness of the heart. (c) An unusual flaccidlty, paleness, and di- minished size of the heart, (d) Secondly. In the large blood-vessels : {a) Parry on Syncope Ang.page 12. 24, 33. Meji oirs Med. Soc. Lond, See. &c, Sec. (&) Morgagni de causis et Sedi,b. Morb. Lib* II. Epis, xx>'.. (0 -• Med. Soc. Land. vol. iV. page S65.