Word: angina
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...future, a great growth will come in aerosol drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have begun to market heart medicine in aerosol cans. In case of an angina attack, the patient puts the aerosol tube in his mouth, gets the proper dosage with a single press of a button. Also starting to come out: cortisone skin medicines, burn ointments and antiseptics in aerosol cans...
...Startling and still unexplained success has been achieved with iproniazid against angina pectoris, the recurrent pain that afflicts many victims of coronary artery disease. Mexico City's Dr. Teodoro Cesarman was most enthusiastic, reported complete relief after one to three weeks' treatment in 62 cases. One man, incapacitated for eight years, who had taken up to 20 tablets of nitroglycerin a day, lost his pain, began climbing stairs, and walked a mile without distress. U.S. and Swiss specialists reported good though less dramatic results...
...marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted of this "act of autotomy," but he stuck it out only 23 days. Disciple Sandor Ferenczi, a Hungarian analyst who was in the process of losing his own mind, offered to go to Vienna to psychoanalyze Freud out of his angina-which, Ferenczi was sure, was merely psychosomatic. Freud was touched by the offer but declined...
...defies the surgeon's efforts: reduced or blocked blood flow through the coronary arteries embedded in the heart muscle itself. This is caused by atherosclerosis, i.e., branches of the coronary arteries are plugged with fatty material, leaving the muscle starved of blood. If this happens gradually, it causes angina pectoris; if suddenly, a heart attack. Surgeons in general have long neglected the problem because it seemed so hopeless...
...relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks a day serve to relax an otherwise apprehensive person, it would be unwise to prohibit them." But the patient must not drink heavily because that-it is now known-adds to the burden on the heart instead of decreasing it. Angina patients are now also allowed to fly, in preference to a longer, more fatiguing surface journey, thanks to the development of pressurized cabins and anti-motion-sickness pills...