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Excerpt from Lectures on Angina Pectoris and Allied States History of the recognition of angina. - Heberden, Rougnon, Morgagni. - Literature. - Definition. - Forms of heart pain. - Classification of the forms of angina. - Physiology and pathology of the coronary arteries. The history of the recognition of the disorder known as angina pectoris is connected with the names of three celebrated men - Heberden, Jenner, and John Hunter. On July 21, 1768, Heberden read, at the Royal College of Physicians, a paper entitled Some Account of a Disorder of the Breast, which was published in vol. ii of the Medical Transactions of the College of Physicians, 1772. An extract from the original description must be quoted: "There is a disorder of the breast, marked with strong and peculiar symptoms, considerable for the kind of danger belonging to it... The seat of it and sense of strangling and anxiety with which it is attended may make it not improperly be called angina pectoris. "Those who are afflicted with it are seized while they are walking, and more particularly when they walk soon after eating, with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would take their life away if it were to increase or to continue; the moment they stand still all this uneasiness vanishes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.