"Angina pectoris" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... approaching the end of my seventeenth year that I began to think of the future more nearly. My father had suffered long—though Mistress Pennyquick and I had known nothing of it, he being so reticent—from a disease which nowadays physicians call angina pectoris, a disease that grips a man by the chest, as 'twere his breastbones are ground together, with breathlessness and exquisite pain. As he grew older, the attacks recurred more frequently and with greater violence, and after one of them, the first I had seen with ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang |
