The delayed diagnosis of myocardial infarction: it took half a century!

IN 1940 the physiologist Carl Wiggers claimed, "Delayed recognition of important physiological discoveries frequently continues untenable and wrong points of view.. . Greater mutual efforts ought to be made by clinicians and physiologists for better dissemination, digestion and absorption of important physiological discoveries."1l Although angina pectoris had been described by William Heberden in the 18th century, and