An inaugural dissertation on angina pectoris / [Henry Bogart].

  • Bogart, Henry, -1817.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on angina pectoris / [Henry Bogart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with other diseased appearances of the hearty in the case of a person who was sixty-six years of age when he died of the disease,^ attri¬ buted the origin of the complaint to the rigidity of those valves. Dr. W all also supposed the affection of the pectoral muscle to be spasmo¬ dic, arising from an irritation on the nerves of the thorax; and the seat and diffusion of the pain, he explained on the principle of nervous connection, particularly by the distribution of the branches of the sympathetic or intercostal nerves. Dr. Matthew Baillie maintains a similar opinion relative to the induration of the valves of the heart. A variety of other morbid appearances lias been noticed as causes, such as preternatural accumulations of fatf about the heart, and an enlarged state of that organ. Spasm of the heart, excesses of passion and anxiety, and a gouty humour, are also men- * Med. Trans, vol. 3. p. i 6. | Vid. M‘Biude, in Bond. Med. Obs. and Inq. vol. 6. p. 9