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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient who has listened carefully to his doctor, angina pectoris (literally, strangling of the chest) means that because of exertion or excitement, his heart muscle is demanding more blood than its narrowed coronary arteries can supply. But it is not necessarily as simple as that, and angina can have some bizarre connotations, says Internist John Francis Briggs of St. Paul. The more doctors learn about the distressing symptom and its victims, the more complex angina becomes. To help get the next generation of practitioners started on the right track, Dr. Briggs lists 26 variations of angina in The New Physician...
...Alcohol angina is not uncommon, results when a patient gets high enough to become "involved in emotional events" that he would have the sense to avoid when sober. Also, alcohol is often prescribed to relieve angina (it is little good except as a sedative), and "enthusiasm for the treatment" may become so great that the doctor winds up treating alcoholism, not angina...
Parsons will speak on "Social Aspects of Illness and the Role of the Physician," stressing sociological views of the situation in the United States and Russia. The second talk, entilted "The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Perspective of American and Soviet Societies," will be given by Mark G. Field '45, research associate for the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health...
This week a woman of 44, first patient operated on with the machine's aid, was making a good recovery after an operation to close an opening between her heart's chambers...
Trade-named Temposil by Lederle Laboratories, it is citrated calcium carbimide (CCC). A single tablet sensitizes the patient so fast that if he takes a drink within as little as ten minutes he will feel flushed and short of breath, and get a headache-all severely enough to make him turn against the bottle. Unlike disulfiram, CCC rarely causes vomiting, a marked drop in blood pressure, or other undesirable side effects. But the effects of CCC usually wear off faster, so if the alcoholic misses his medicine for a couple of days, he may fall off the wagon...