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Subject: Re: [APG] Question?
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:05:43 EST
This explanation is from Thomas Shawker, MD
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“ossification of the heart” – I have encountered this term in 19th
century medicine. Exercepted from two early19th century’s medical
dictionaries (1808 and 1842):
“angina pectoris: A disease of the heart; an anomalous affection of the chest
and organs of respiration (1808).
A disease, the precise pathology of which is not well known; the principle
symptoms are violent pain about the sternum extending towards the arms,
anxiety, dyspnea, and a sense of suffocation; it is an affection of great
danger, being usually dependent upon ossification or other morbid affection
of the heart (1842).”
Age of the deceased not given. If deceased was relatively young, death
could have been due to TB or rheumatic fever; if older, a heart attack or
myocardial infarction – however in the 19th century, heart attacks or
myocardial infarctions were not ecognized as a cause of death but its
pre-morbid condition, angina, was recognized as a symptom complex.
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Marie
Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CGRS, CGL
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