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SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1926,
MEDICAL MYSTERY.
A HARLEY STREET
CONFESSION.
[By Dr. Leonard Williams.]
Angina pectoris, the disenue from which Lord Oxford was at first mistakenly believed to be suffering, Is one of the many mysteries of medical science.
The late Sir Clifford Allbutt, the greatest authority on the subject in modern times, calls it "one of tho flercest and most searching inflic- tions which can fall upon steadfast and resoluto men." The late Sir Richard Douglas Powell, who was also an eminent authority, wrote as follows concerning it"Angina in itsgruver forms is an appalling and pleturesque disease, about which a certain glamour has been cast by the many noble, and 'distinguished lives it has stricken down."..
The Case of Matthew Arnold. I would be interesting to know who were the distinguished lives that Sir Richard had in his mind, I can think of two only in the world of medicine-namely, "the great John Hunter and Charcot. Of those outside the medical world only one celebrity occurs to me as having been thus afflicted-namely, Matthew Arnold, and I am not quite sure about him."
Sir Richard omitted this passage in the second edition of his article, algnifleant fact which points to some doubt having arisen in his mind us to the suitability of the word "many" in this connection.
The first account of an attack of angina pectoris to appear in Eng- lish was, in the Memarla of Lord Clarendon in 1632, who described an attacked suffered by his own father. From the medical point of view the disease was frat ac- curately described by the great Dr. llcberden (1710-1801), whom Dr. Johnson described as "ultimus Romanorum, the last of our great physicians,"
How It Attacks,
He was indeed both a great physi- clan and a great scholar, whose work will survive as long as medi- enl science lasts. It was Heber- den who invented the name, by which the disease is known: "The seat of it, and the sense of strang- ling and anxiety with which it is attended, may mako it not impro- perly be called angina pectoris. Those who are afflicted' with it are seized whilst they are walking, and more particulary when they walk soon after eating, with a painful
and most disagreeable sensation
in the breast, which seems as if
it would take their life away if it were to increase or to continue: The moment they stand still all this uneasiness vanishes. In all other respects the patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, por- fectly well and in particular have no shortness of breath, from which it is totally different."
'It was reserved for a very dio- tinguished physician, Sir Lauder Brunton, whose memory is still very fresh amongst us, to explain a part, at any rate, of the mechan- ism of these dreaded and dreadful attacks, and to discover a means
for their temporary relief.
BRITISH MUSEUM TREASURES.
SILVER FROM CHINESE TOMBS.
The Trustees of the British Muscum have a tale unfolded-s tale of treasure trove; of hoards of silver from Chinese tombs; of coins from the Eygyptian deserts; of bronze bowls from English river-beds and the Hungarian plains; of adornments that havė lain buried for thousands of years in the sand of the British shores- and of golden pieces that were the pay of Satrap soldiers whose bones had become desert dust centuries before the Christian era.
These stories of treasures rich. and rare, of their seeking and their finding, are contained in the opening number of The British Museum Quarterly, a periodical that is to take the place of the hitherto annual Parliamentatry
return.
Some of the recent acquisitions are recorded;---
A statuetto of Socrates recently found at Alexandria, and regarded as the most lifelike presentation of the philosopher in existence.
An alabaster einerary ura, dat- ing, from the third century B.C., á rare example of Roman"art of the Republican period.
A mediaaval bronze bowl, en graved with mythological aubjects. dug from the bed of the River Severn.
The first draft of Jane Austen'á "Persuasion," the only surviving manuscript of any part of hor six famtious novels.
Ffteen picces of exquisitely wrought silver found in a Chinese tomb of the Tang dynesty (A.D. 618-006). "
Unique Cretan coins; one of them the earliest known.
A gold "starter," found at Mem- phis, the carliest definitely Egyp- tian coln in existence.
The only known copy of the Sarum "Book of Hours," printed in Paris in 1491.
A complete set of etchings by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert presented by the King.
The relief on the Roman cinerary urn is believed · to" represent the which took place every year on the parado of the Roman Knights
Ides of July, in conimomoration of the victory won at the Lake. Re- gillus.
It was during the digging of the foundation for the Haw Bridge at Tewkesbury that A mediaeval bronze bowl, recently presented by Miss Lawrence, was found in the River Severn... It is engraved with mythological subjects, each medal lion surrounded by a Latin hox- meter describing the subject.
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