A Tale of Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction

The remarkable facts, that the paroxysm, or indeed the disease itself, is excited more especially upon walking up hill, and after a meal; that thus excited, it is accompanied with a sensation, which threatens instant death if the motion is persisted in; and, that on stopping, the distress immediately abates, or altogether subsides; have . . . formed a constituent part of the character of Angina Pectoris. 1 " R emarks on Angina Pectoris" by John Warren, M.D., appeared in 1812 as the first article in the first issue of The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 1 Warren's description of angina pectoris (derived from the Latin angina, "infection of the throat"; from the Greek , "strangling"; and from the…