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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aisha Adigun, B.Sc., M.D.[2]

Overview

The first recorded description of chest pain was given by Benivieni, a Florentine physician, in the early 1500s. The first concise account of angina pectoris was given by the then Earl of Clarendon when he described his father's illness. Angina pectoris was described by a medical practitioner when Dr. William Heberden read his paper to the College of Physicians in London on July 21st 1768.

Historical Perspective

Discovery

  • The first recorded description of chest pain was given by Benivieni, a Florentine physician, in the early 1500s. He documented a woman that was "sometimes troubled in her heart". [1]
  • Andreas Vesalius in 1555 associated "a sad feeling and pain in the heart" with heart disease. [2]
  • The first concise account of angina pectoris was given by the then Earl of Clarendon when he described his father's illness. [3]

"He was seized by so sharp a pain in the left arm . . . that the torment made him pale as he were dead, and he used to say that he passed the pangs of death and that he should die in one of those fits; as soon as it was over, which was quickly, he was the cheerfullest man living . . ."

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Mesquita ET, Souza Júnior CV, Ferreira TR (2015). "Andreas Vesalius 500 years--A Renaissance that revolutionized cardiovascular knowledge". Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc. 30 (2): 260–5. doi:10.5935/1678-9741.20150024. PMC 4462973. PMID 26107459.
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