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A story of heartache: the understanding of angina pectoris in the pre-surgical period

Author(s) -

AW Beasley

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the journal of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 2042-8189

pISSN - 1478-2715

DOI - 10.4997/jrcpe.2011.416

Subject(s) - angina , incidence (geometry) , period (music) , dimension (graph theory) , medicine , history , cardiology , aesthetics , art , myocardial infarction , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics

This paper traces the understanding of angina pectoris over two centuries from its first description by William Heberden, emphasising the Scottish dimension in this process. Such a retrospect is appropriate at a time when natural disasters in several parts of the world are drawing attention to their effect in increasing the incidence of heart attacks.

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