Word: angina
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When a robust man suddenly drops dead and the newspapers report "heart failure," the probability is that he died during an attack of angina pectoris. If he had gone to his doctor the day before, the doctor would probably have slapped him on the back and told him that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina...
...angina pectoris, in electric shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
Died, William Kroger, 79, brother and onetime partner of founder Bernard Kroger of Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (chain stores); of angina pectoris; in Asheville...
...Died? Henry Thomas Rainey, 73, Speaker of the House of Representatives; of angina pectoris following pneumonia; in St. Louis. A white-shocked farmer-lawyer from Carrollton, Ill., he was elected to Congress in 1902, served every ensuing term but one (1921-23). Elected Speaker by House Democrats in March 1933, he pushed through the early bills of the Roosevelt Administration, kept a blacklist of Representatives who voted anti-Administration...
Significance of Drs. Wright and Moffat's research is that it supplies additional evidence that smoking increases the damage to the tissues of a person whose blood circulation is impaired. Diseases which smokers must guard against include angina pectoris, thrombo-angiitis obliterans. arteriosclerosis. But, cheerfully add the researchers, they have no whit of evidence that smoking causes such diseases...