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Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic System of Nerves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

A. Eulenburg
Affiliation:
Univ. of Greifswald
P. Guttmann
Affiliation:
Univ. of Berlin

Extract

The disease described by Heberden (1768) as Angina Pectoris, which is sometimes also termed Stenocardia, is not an anatomically definable cardiac affection, but rather a group of symptoms, originating in very different and for the most part unknown conditions. Although, therefore, we include a short account of it in this essay, we do not wish to indicate it as our belief that it is caused exclusively by changes in the sympathetic system, but that it seems to us that the latter, inasmuch as it takes the principal part in the formation of the cardiac plexus—which is almost certainly the starting point of angina pectoris—is undoubtedly in some way connected with the occurrence of the phenomena under consideration.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1879 

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