An inquiry into the symptoms and causes of the syncope anginosa, commonly called angina pectoris : illustrated by dissections / by Caleb Hillier Parry, M.D.

  • Parry, Caleb Hillier, 1755-1822.
Date:
1799
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Credit: An inquiry into the symptoms and causes of the syncope anginosa, commonly called angina pectoris : illustrated by dissections / by Caleb Hillier Parry, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    a degree, that the power of moving them was cc sometimes suspended during the paroxysm. The age, constitution, form, and symptoms u of the patient clearly pointed out the disease to be the Angina Pectoris, described by Do&ors Heberden andFoTHERGiLL. Aware of its fatal termination, I had no other hope than that of palliating the symptoms. For this purpose 11 mild aperient medicines and antispasmodics were occasionally made use of; blisters and cup- u ping glasses, with scarification, were applied to the back and sternum; an issue was formed in the thigh; a vegetable and milk diet was recom- u mended, and stri&ly adhered to for some time. The pain however increasing, this diet was abandoned, and fresh meats sparingly eaten. The physician who attended him in the latter cc period of his illness, ordered a scruple of se- neka, in pills, and half a grain of corrosive cc sublimate, dissolved in cold water, to be taken night and morning. The first dose occasioned ^ great heat and pain in his chest and stomach; so much so, that he refused to repeat it the next morning. From this time the paroxysms became less frequent and painful, his breathing much more difficult, with an almost constant cough and expectoration of viscid mucus. For some nights he could not lie on either side, and required