A treatise on the disease commonly called angina pectoris / [William Butter].

  • William Butter
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the disease commonly called angina pectoris / [William Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 5x6) ) fit; but.thén the latter, takes place on the ftoppage giving way. Sometimes a difficulty of breathing comes in. the intervals.of the fits, without any warning or known-caufe, ~ continues a. very few minutes, and {trikes the patient with the fame apprehenfion of danger as the ftoppage. | As foon.as the patient ftands ftill, the fit - begins to decline; efpecially if he can belch wind, which is generally, theugh not al- ways, the cafe. All the fymptoms gradu- ally abate with the fame kind of fenfation as that with which they came on; and the more {peedily,. the more wind is difcharged. Sometimes the pain goes off gradually with a creeping fenfation, and leaving the patient difpofed to fleep. Sometimes the parts affected. remain afterward fore to the touch. This diforder generally terminates in ten or fifteen minutes after the patient has ceafed from walking, Fits from walking come qt
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