A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins, containing the pathology and treatment of aneurisms and wounded arteries / by Joseph Hodgson.

  • Joseph Hodgson
Date:
1815
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    the pericardium, and in active and passive aneurisms of the heart. Angina pectoris and syncope anginosa must therefore be regarded as terms designating ra- ther a train of symptoms accompanying almost all organic diseases of the heart, than any particular morbid condition of that organ. That a degeneration and wasting of the muscular structure of the heart attends an extensive deposi- tion of calcareous matter in the coronary arteries, has been noticed by Jenner*, Parry f, and Baillie^. The following cases exhibit the extent to which the muscular structure of the heart may be reduced from this cause, and prove how inadequate such a viscus must be to the due performance of its functions. CASE VI. An elderly woman, who suffered much from nervous symptoms, had long complained of palpi- tations and irregularity in the action of the heart, which occasioned frequent swoonings and vertigo. Whilst attending divine worship, she was suddenly seized with one of these fits, and died before assistance could be brought to her. The heart appeared unusually small. Its substance was ex- tremely soft and flaccid. The parietes of either * Parry on Angina Pectoris. t Ibid. I Bailme's Morbid Anatomy, p. 45,