Treatment of Angina Pectoris

MORGAGNI,1 in the middle of the eighteenth century, described patients who were no doubt suffering from angina pectoris; however, it remained for Heberden,2 in 1768, to present his classic description of the disorder:But there is a disorder of the breast marked with strong, peculiar symptoms, considerable for the kind of danger belonging to it, and not extremely rare which deserves to be mentioned here at length. The seat of it, and the sense of strangling and anxiety with which it is attended, may make it improperly called angina pectoris.... They who are afflicted with it are seized while they . . .