Word: angina
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...Claude Shaeffer Beck, skillful Cleveland surgeon whose preferred operative area is the heart, rumbled: "The death rate from sclerosis of the coronary arteries is appalling. Of the physicians who died during the first half of this year 14.6% were given a diagnosis of coronary thrombosis, coronary sclerosis or angina pectoris...
...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...
Facial Neuralgia ranks close to angina pectoris as a racking pain. Cause of such neuralgia has never been ascertained. Usually some obscure infection is suspected. The pain may last for years, or it may return from time to time. Drugs only allay the pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop the neuralgia by cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying...
Died. Frederick Fillmore French, 52, Manhattan builder (Tudor City, Knickerbocker Village); of angina pectoris; in Pawling, N. Y. An admirer of the late Thomas Edison, he worked late, slept little, never drank or attended the theatre, assigned his staff daily readings in Elbert Hubbard...
Some of the thrombosed patients suffered with angina pectoris, pain in the chest often associated with hardening of the arteries. But most who died of coronary thrombosis died with no forewarning of heart trouble...