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However this may be, the cause having been determined or presumed by the physician, it should be so impressed on the patient that he does not again repeat the insult to his heart. Auricular fibrillation is at times apparently a clinical entity much as is angina pectoris, but it is often a symptom of some other condition.
In its incipient that is, its early stages, it would be rather hard to tell from angina pectoris, for the symptoms would be much the same pain about the heart and shortness of breath. But one can get over the latter, and feel perfectly well between attacks."
Cyprian, in a beautiful passage on envy, calls it 'the moth of the soul: but perhaps, even that passion is less gnawing, less a 'tabes pectoris, than ambition. You are surprised at my heat the fact is, I am enraged at thinking how much we forfeit, when we look up only, and trample unconsciously, in the blindness of our aspiration, on the affections which strew our path.
Barbara waved her away impatiently. "What caused Jimmie's death?" "Angina pectoris," declared Rochester. "Too much excitement brought on a fatal attack." Barbara nodded dazedly. "I knew he had heart trouble, but " She stepped toward Turnbull and her voice quivered with feeling. "Don't leave Jimmie lying there; take him to his room, doctor," turning entreatingly to Stone.
It is a disturbance of the heart which most frequently attacks men, probably more than three fourths of all cases of this disease occurring in men; in a large majority of the cases the coronary arteries are diseased. Various pains which are not true angina pectoris occur in the left side of the chest; these have been called pseudo-anginas. They will be referred to later.
His father had died suddenly at the age of fifty-three from angina pectoris; and he himself was haunted by forebodings of an early death. To be snatched away without a warning, to come in a moment from the seductions of this World to the presence of Eternity his most ordinary actions, the most casual remarks, served to keep him in remembrance of that dreadful possibility.
"They all took the same line, and agreed that it was an absolutely unprecedented occurrence for a man to embark upon an ocean voyage only a few days after an operation for appendicitis, with double pneumonia behind, and angina pectoris intervening.
By the tenth year half the remainder will have died, leaving one fourth both of the men and the women who have lived beyond ten years." The causes of death he would place in the following order: gradual cardiac failure; uremia; apoplexy; some complicating acute infection; angina pectoris; accidental causes; acute edema of the lungs and cachexia.
Consequently, eliminative treatment and a temporary rigid diet, and various treatments to prevent intestinal indigestion, are of great value in angina pectoris. It may be even advisable for twenty-four hours or so to give nothing but water, and then perhaps a skimmed milk diet for a few days.
The position of the patient with true angina pectoris is characteristic. He stops still wherever he is, stands perfectly erect or bends his body backward, raises his chin, supports himself with one hand, leans against anything that is near him, and places his other hand over his heart, although he exercises very little pressure with this hand.
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