Word: angina
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There is no cure for angina pectoris (heart attack), which afflicts hundreds of thousands in the U.S.. but its agonizing pains have been relieved in a number of cases by injections of testosterone propionate, a male sex hormone. So reported Dr. Leslie Hamm of Boston in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, in a review of his own work and that of Dr. Maurice Aaron Lesser...
...most excruciating ailments known to medicine, angina usually comes on after an emotional shock or physical effort. It often follows the same pattern: a piercing stab in the shoulder, a "squeezing" of the heart, lightning pains down the left arm, a drenching sweat, and over it all, a terrible sense of impending death. According to prevailing theory, angina is caused by constriction of the heart's blood vessels which cuts down the supply of fresh blood at the very time when it is most needed...
...expand their tightened arteries when an attack starts, victims of angina carry with them tiny pills (containing from 0.0003 to 0.0006 of a gram) of nitroglycerin. These work in a flash, but their effect does not last long...
Last year, on the hunch that testosterone propionate increases the flow of blood in the heart, Dr. Lesser injected minuscule amounts of the hormone into the muscles of 24 angina patients (including four women), whose ages ranged from 40 to 77. Injections were given every second to fifth day, depending on the number and severity of the attacks. After receiving from five to 25 injections, all the patients improved. Some had no attacks for as long as twelve months after their last injection. (The women did not do as well...
...judge by "scores of middle-aged patients dying from all sorts of diseases," arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) is very rare. So is angina pectoris (heart attack) which is often caused by arteriosclerosis. The rarity of these diseases, said Dr. Snapper, "is the more striking because the increase of the frequency of this affection in America and Europe is appalling....It is difficult to give an explanation...one can fall back on the equanimity of the Chinese, but the differences in nutrition of Chinese and Westerners may give a better explanation." Arteriosclerosis begins by the seeping of fat into bloodvessel...