Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 917

JOHN FOTHERGILL (1712-1780) Farther account of the Angina Pectoris. (In Medical observations and inquiries. Vol. 5, (1776), pp. 252-258.) 20.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 914

Fothergill followed his earlier paper on angina pectoris (see No. 916) with this one which he presented to the Medical Society (of Physicians) in 1775. In this instance, the patient "H.R. . . . a gentleman rather inclined to corpulency, but active, and of a very irritable habit. . . ." (p. 252) died suddenly after becoming very angry. John Hunter (see No. 968 ff.) performed the autopsy and found that the ventricles were whitish, hard, and ligamentous while the mitral valves were stiffened and the aorta contained whitish patches in its walls. Hunter also found "the two coronary arteries, from their origin to many ramifications upon the heart, were one piece of bone (p. 255)." This is perhaps the earliest recorded description of the association of coronary vessel occlusion with myocardial infarction in a patient who had suffered from angina pectoris.

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