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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    a degree of stimulus may be left, sufficient for the purposes of healthy circulation. He con¬ fesses that he is unacquainted with the actual effect of that remedy. Purging appears to him to disorder the cir¬ culation in so great a degree that it cannot be safely employed. In cases where there mav be reason to sus- pect plethora, issues are recommended, espe¬ cially when danger is to be apprehended from the more speedy evacuation by venesection. During the paroxysms, in cases of imminent danger, he advises bleeding, the use also of purgatives and enemata. Stimulants he ob¬ serves can be safely taken, only so far as they may be required to remove flatulency from the stomach ; or their use should be referred to that period, when, after the failure of the other means suggested, the pulse is not at all, or scarcely to be felt. In fine. Dr. Parry regrets, that the most important part of bis subject, that which rp-