Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    one can reafonably doubt the identity of the difeafe. Within the fpace of two years I have feen two other cafes with fimilar fymptoms, both of which proved fuddenly fatal. From thefe fads I am inclined to believe that this diforder of the bread: is not extremely rare, and of very great importance in regard to the danger with which it is attended, although it has pafied un¬ noticed till lately by medical writers. I am inclined to fufped, that the fudden death occafioned by the angina pe&oris, has frequently been attributed by inaccurate obfervers to gout in the ftomach; the age and habit of perfons liable to both difeafes are the fame. As the mediaftinum is a] part of the body in no refped eflential to life, it has probably been very feldom ex¬ amined by difledion for the caufe of death. The lymptoms in the cafe above related, diftindly pointed out this partition of the thorax as the feat ' of