A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale.

  • Teale, Thomas Pridgin, 1801?-1867.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve / By Thomas Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9] ANGINA PECTORIS. Tue disease to which Dr. Heberden assigned the name of Angina Pectoris* in the year 1772, has, since that time, remained in considerable uncertainty, as to its symp- toms, pathology, and treatment. The most prominent symptom by which it is characterised, and from which it derives its name, is the peculiar constriction, anguish, pain, or oppression, which is experienced in the epigastrium or lower part of the chest. To this several other symp- toms are added, but authors are far from being agreed as to those which peculiarly characterise the complaint. In describing this affection in its commencement, Dr. Heberden says, ‘‘' Those who are afflicted with it are seized, while they are walking, and more particularly when they walk soon after eating, with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would take their life away, if it were to increase or to continue: the moment they stand still, all this un- easiness vanishes. In all other respects the patients are, at the beginning of the disorder, perfectly well, and in particular have no shortness of breath, from which it is totally different.” ‘‘ The os sterni is usually pointed at