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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![Reprinted from the ‘Clinical Society’s Reports,’Vol. III.]; Nitrite of Amyl in Angina Pectoris. By T. Lauder Brunton, M.D. Communicated by J. Burdon Sanderson, M.D. Read February lltli, 1870. William H—, aet. 26; formerly a blacksmith, now a toll-keeper; admitted to Ward I, Royal Infirmary, Edin- burgh, December 7th, 1866. Antecedent history.—Patient was strong and healthy till his tenth year, when he was confined to bed for six months by a severe attack of rheumatism. During the next twelve years he had four other less severe attacks, and after recover- ing from the last of these his feet began to swell during the day. .In April, 1866, he had a seventh attack, which lasted for a month, and six weeks after it was over he noticed an unusual palpitation of his heart, for which he entered the infirmary, and remained there three weeks, but left un- relieved. The palpitation gradually increased till he felt it along the line of the carotids as high up as the ears; and in November last he began to feel besides a dull heavy pain about the left nipple. At first this came on every three days, usually during the night, and lasted half an hour. During the day he felt little inconvenience from the palpitation, unless he exerted himself. On admission the pain was no longer confined to the region of the left nipple, but was worst along the right border of the sternum, and extended up to the right arm. This pain was more severe if he walked about much, other- wise he felt well. Professor Maclagan had charge of the clinical wards at this time, and the patient was treated for six weeks with tincture of aconite, and then with tincture of digitalis; but under these remedies the pulse became intermittent, and the pain was not relieved by either, and rather aggravated by digitalis. They were therefore dis- continued, the digitalis being stopped on January 31st. During their employment wet cupping over the cardiac region to the extent of temporarily relieved the pain.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22429438_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
