Word: angina
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...drugs which Dr. Brooks prefers in attacks of angina pectoris are amyl nitrate or nitroglycerin. He also uses chloral hydrate, paraldehyde and barbiturates...
...lets his patients who like alcohol drink it moderately, for its soothing and relaxing effects. Dr. Brooks thinks that the tendency to suffer angina pectoris is hereditary. Said he: "It would not be wise to advise marrying among individuals with angina pectoris...
Surgery is practically useless in controlling angina pectoris, declared Dr. Marvin. A few years ago surgeons, without knowing precisely why, cut certain nerves near the neck, which carry messages to and from the heart. All that this did was to keep the patient from being aware of the agonizing pain and in some instances prevent spasms from contracting the coronary arteries. But such operations did not attack the underlying causes of the spasms or pain. Besides, many patients died during the operations. So now few surgeons perform them...
...though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...
...theory is that the thyroid drives the heart more than the heart can stand and that without the thyroid's slave-driving the heart can take its own time and method of pumping blood through the coronary arteries. Thyroidectomy does relieve drive on the heart and does prevent angina. But it does not cure the source of trouble and, except for lifelong dosing with the thyroid hormone, makes an idiot of the coronary patient...