The aid which experimentation on animals has given to the science and practice of medicine / by Sir Lauder Brunton.
- Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
- Date:
- [between 1900 and 1909?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The aid which experimentation on animals has given to the science and practice of medicine / by Sir Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![0 NITRITE OE AMYE IN ANGINA/PECTORIS. >sJL / n r By T. LAUDER BRUNTON, B.Sc., M.B., SENIOR PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY, AND RESIDENT PHYSICIAN TO THE CLINICAL WARDS OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, EDINBURGH. [Reprinted from ‘ The Lancet ’ for July 27th, 1867.] Few tilings are more distressing to a physician than to stand beside a suffering patient who is anxiously looking to him for that relief from pain which he feels himself utterly unable to afford. His sympathy for the sufferer, and the regret he feels for the impotence of his art, engrave the picture indelibly on his mind, and serve as a constant and urgent stimulus in his search after the causes of the pain, and the means by which it may be alleviated. Perhaps there is no class of cases in which such occur- rences as this take place so frequently as in some kinds of cardiac disease, in which angina pectoris forms at once the most prominent and the most painful and distressing sym- ptom. This painful affection is defined by Dr. Walshe as a paroxysmal neurosis, in which the heart is essentially con- cerned, and the cases included in this definition may be divided into two classes. In the first and most typical, there is severe pain in the precordial region, often shooting up the neck and down the arms, accompanied by dyspnoea, and a most distressing sense of impending dissolution. The occurrence and departure of the attack are both equally sudden, and its duration is only a few minutes. In the second class, which, from its greater frequency, is probably the more important, though the pain and dyspnoea may both be very great, the occurrence of the attack is some- times gradual, and its departure generally so; its duration is from a few minutes to an hour and a half or more, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22429438_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
