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...Beck did get his doctor-patient off the operating table, has managed to keep him alive for months. Like all muscles, the heart requires the nourishment of blood. It gets this blood through two coronary arteries which tap off from the aorta just after it springs from the hollows of the heart. If a coronary artery is clogged by a blood clot (thrombus), or is narrowed by hardening, the heart cannot get enough blood to survive. Before it dies, it causes the terrifying signal of pain called angina pectoris...
...groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...
...comparison with the heavy gloom of late winter (TIME, March 25). Fact is, businessmen for once are willing to admit that trade can be good without getting better. Even G. O. Pundit Mark Sullivan, noting the impressive volume of corporate refundings, declared last week: "The result is that the aorta between capital and industry has begun to function. Because the reservoirs of capital are teeming, this flow, with the headway it has now acquired, may readily swell into a great business revival...
...presumption that the cause of angina pectoris lies somewhere in the heart, physiologists have studied that organ painstakingly. The first offshoots of the mighty aorta are two small twining arteries, called the coronaries, which feed blood to the hardworking heart muscle. If the bore of the coronary arteries is narrowed by disease or if cardiac circulation is otherwise interfered with, the cells of the heart muscle suffocate. The heart will stand for such maltreatment just so long. Then suddenly the heart "utters a piercing cry of distress." That cry is angina pectoris...
...determine whether or not their sovereign's sudden death was due to foul play. Promptly surgeons at the University of Berne set their minds at rest. They found that King Feisal, "The Sword Flashing Down at the Stroke," had succumbed to an advanced stage of arteriosclerosis of the aorta and coronary arteries. The King's cardiac condition had not been improved by his insistence on smoking 100 cigarets...