1759 HYDE, Edward, Earl of Clarendon (1609 – 1674)
The life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the chancellor's life from his birth to the restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his history of the grand rebellion, from the restoration to his banishment in 1667. Written by himself. Printed from his original manuscripts, given to the University of Oxford by the Heirs of the late Earl of Clarendon. 3 vols.
From the description given by the Earl of Clarendon in his autobiography, on vol. 1, p. 16, his father, Henry Hyde, almost certainly suffered from, and died of, angina pectoris. If this is really so, it is the first r…
GMN 2884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4294
1761 MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (1682 – 1771)
De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque. 2 vols.
Morgagni was the founder of modern pathological anatomy. The work was completed in Morgagni’s 79th year and consists of a series of 70 letters reporting about 700 cases and necropsies. As best he could, he correlated …
GMN 2276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2846
1768 ROUGNON DE MAGNY, Nicolas François (1727 – 1799)
Lettre de M. Rougnon à M. Lorry, touchant les causes de la mort de feu Monsieur Charles, ancien capitaine de cavalerie, arrivé à Besançon le 23 février 1768.
Osler, Allbutt, and several other authorities believe this to be the description of an authentic case of angina, thus preceding Heberden’s classic account. Other eminent authorities consider the patient to have suffer…
GMN 2886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4305
1772 HEBERDEN, William Sr. (1710 – 1801)
Some account of a disorder of the breast.
This classic description of angina pectoris is the substance of a paper read on July 21, 1768. Although descriptions of angina are to be found in the works of earlier writers, these mention only dyspnoea in their case…
GMN 2887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4309
1776 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
Case of an angina pectoris, with remarks. Farther account of the angina pectoris.
Fothergill was "the first physician to suspect on clinical grounds that the heart might be affected in this condition [angina pectoris] and he was the first to record abnormalities of the myocardium and coronary arter…
GMN 11600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13799
1781 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780); ELLIOT, John (1747 – 1787)
A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works of John Fothergill. With an account of his life; and occasional notes, by John Elliot.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13800
1799 PARRY, Caleb Hillier (1755 – 1822)
An inquiry into the symptoms and causes of the syncope anginosa commonly called angina pectoris.
This was a paper read before the Gloucester Medical Society in 1788, but not published until 1799. Largely confirming the earlier work of Heberden on the condition, Parry stated his conclusion that disease of the coro…
GMN 2888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4318
1802 HEBERDEN, William Sr. (1710 – 1801)
Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione.
Samuel Johnson called Heberden “the last of our learned physicians”. The above work included all his important papers, which had earned him his great reputation, and which are dealt with elsewhere in this database (se…
GMN 2207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3677
1809 BURNS, Allan (1781 – 1813)
Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart.
Burns described endocarditis and reported three cases of mitral stenosis. He recognized the thrill present in the latter condition and seems to have understood the mechanism of a cardiac murmur. He also described unil…
GMN 2738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8654
1813 BLACKALL, John (1771 – 1860)
Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies.
Blackall predated Bright in detecting albuminuria in association with edema. His book, of which the second edition is more important than the first, includes reports on cases of angina pectoris.
GMN 2209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1673
1825 PARRY, Caleb Hillier (1755 – 1822); PARRY, Charles Henry (1779 – 1860)
Collections from the unpublished writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry. 3 vols.
Includes Parry’s interesting description of eight cases of exophthalmic goitre, the first of which was observed in 1786, and his notes on four cases of angina pectoris. Parry's paper, "Enlargement of the thyroid gland…
GMN 2210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1678
1867 BRUNTON, Sir Thomas Lauder (1844 – 1916)
On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris.
Lauder Brunton was responsible for the introduction of amyl nitrite for the alleviation of angina. Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 561-64.
GMN 2890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4329
1867 NOTHNAGEL, Carl Wilhelm Hermann (1841 – 1905)
Angina pectoris vasomotoria.
Nothnagel, himself a victim of angina, described the vasomotor form of the disease.
GMN 2891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4335
1879 MURRELL, William (1853 – 1912)
Nitro-glycerine as a remedy for angina pectoris.
Murrell introduced trinitrin (nitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate) in the treatment of angina.
GMN 2892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4338
1879 BURNETT, James Compton (1840 – 1901)
Gold as a remedy in disease, notably in some forms of organic heart disease, angina pectoris, melancholy, tedium vitae, scrofula, syphilis, skin disease, & as an antidote to the ill effects of mercury.
Burnett, a homeopath, provided an excellent summary of the history of gold as it was used in medicine, with extensive references to the historical literature. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11030
1885 BRUNTON, Sir Thomas Lauder (1844 – 1916)
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work concerning …
GMN 1881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2519
1895 ASKANAZY, S
Klinisches über Diuretin.
In 1895 Askanazy proposed diuretin as a remedy for anginal pain.
GMN 2893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4365
1897 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
Lectures on angina pectoris and allied states.
"This monograph, based on seven lectures Osler delivered at Johns Hopkins, is his longest publication dealing with heart disease. He discusses the history of the recognition of angina, the pathophysiology of coronary …
GMN 11651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13852
1899 –1903 HUCHARD, Henri (1844 – 1910)
Traité cliniques des maladies du coeur et de l’aorte. 3 vols.
Third and best edition. "Huchard, physician to the Necker Hospital was a foremost teacher in Paris at the end of the 19th century, and a great authority on angina pectoris and arteriosclerosis. He was a powerful advoc…
GMN 2811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3470
1915 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)
Diseases of the arteries, including angina pectoris. 2 vols.
Includes his suggestion of the aortic genesis of angina pectoris, and (vol. 2, p. 368) his mechanical theory of cardiac pain in coronary occlusion.
GMN 2894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4368
1918 BOUSFIELD, Guy William John (1893 – 1974)
Angina pectoris: changes in electrocardiogram during paroxysm.
First electrocardiogram recorded (1917) from a patient with angina pectoris.
GMN 2894.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4370
1920 JONNESCO, Thomas (Thoma Ionescu) (1860 – 1926)
Angine de poitrine guérie par la résection du sympathique cervicothoracique.
Cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of angina pectoris was first carried out by Jonnesco in 1916.
GMN 2895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4376
1922 LAEWEN, Arthur (1876 – 1958)
Paravertebrale Novokaininjektionen zur Differentialdiagnose intra-abdomineller Erkrankungen.
First paravertebral injection for the treatment of angina pectoris.
GMN 2896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4379
1923 MACKENZIE, Sir James (1853 – 1925)
Angina pectoris.
A classic description of angina by “the beloved physician”, one of the greatest of all cardiologists. Mackenzie considered the disease to be due to cardiac failure.
GMN 2897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4383
1933 BLUMGART, Hermann Ludwig (1895 – 1977); LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966); ET AL
Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity.
Thyroidectomy for congestive heart failure and angina pectoris. With D. D. Berlin.
GMN 2899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4387
1933 HYMAN, Albert S. (1893 – 1972); PARSONNET, Aaron E. (1889 – 1951)
The failing heart of middle life: The myocardiosis syndrome, coronary thrombosis, and angina pectoris with a section upon the medico-legal aspects of sudden death from heart disease.
"This pioneering monograph on the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease includes a detailed discussion of the recently recognized electrocardiographic features of myocardial infarction. Hyman invented a [external…
GMN 11668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13869
1936 O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laurence Frederick (1900 – 1940)
An experimental method of providing a collateral circulation to the heart.
By attaching a pedicled omental graft to the surface of the heart (cardio-omentopexy), thus providing a collateral circulation to that organ, O’Shaughnessy made an important advance in the treatment of angina and card…
GMN 3037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3447
1937 ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)
The history of angina pectoris.
GMN 3157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4093
1945 RAAB, Wilhelm (1895 – 1970)
Thiouracil treatment of angina pectoris; rationale and results.
GMN 2900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4847
1959 PRINZMETAL, Myron (1908 – 1987); KENNAMER, Rexford (1920 – 2013); BOR, Naci (1928 – ); ET AL
Angina pectoris.I. A variant form of angina pectoris. Preliminary report.
Prinzmetal angina. "Dr. Prinzmetal and his collaborators focus upon an interesting variant of angina pectoris which appears to be associated with temporary, recurrent spasm of a partially occluded coronary artery. In …
GMN 12277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14496
2001 MICHAELS, Leon
The eighteenth-century origins of angina pectoris: Predisposing causes, recognition and aftermath.
GMN 12361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14585
