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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    spects the cure, or relief of the complaint, should have been so defective. On the supposition, that a diminished energy of the heart is the cause of the disease, the ar¬ gentum nitratum has been prescribed : taken into the stomach, it was supposed to produce its effects through the medium of the nerves. Fowler’s solution of arsenic, the applica¬ tion of a solution of the tartrite of antimony to the breast, cicuta, hyosciamus, and other narcotics, are all said to have been used with some advantage. Dr. Schmidt observes, that the radical cure is very difficult, especially if the disease has been of long duration, but that it is not to be considered as an incurable disorder; he had met with several instances of patients who had labored under it and were restored to perfect health. Regarding it as a case of spurious gout, he has two indications of cure, which it would be needless here to mention. The angina pectoris can have no farther rela-