Aspects of our present understanding of ischemic heart disease: more answers than questions

Article Abstract:

Coronary diseases have been the subject of a variety of researches, but they were referred to with different names such as acute indigestion, poisoning, dropsy, apoplexy and even sudden disease of the organs. The most celebrated diagnoses in the 19th century were those presented by Vulpian, Hammer and Leyden. However, it was Herrick in 1912 who first successfully described the clinical features of acute myocardial infarction through the aid of an electrocardiogram. A history of the coronary heart disease based on medical findings from the 18th-20th century is presented.

History, Coronary heart disease, Heart attack

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Anomaly and paradigm

Article Abstract:

Variations in the patients' response to treatmentare discussed. The placebo effect is influenced by the patient's social class wherein those with something to live for have the will to respond to the form of medicine given rather than its actual substance. Treatment is also affected by differential morbidity such that differences in the patients' illnesses results in different responses to treatment. Furthermore, treatment response isalso affected by patients' variable susceptibility to treatment which is based on genetic, physiological and psychological factors.

Therapeutics, Patient compliance, Health behavior, Medical personnel and patient, Medical personnel-patient relations

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Proof

Article Abstract:

Serendipity and intuition were advocated as factors that constitute confirmation of scientific proposition. Inspired speculation can bring one nearer to the truth than the most rigorously controlled experiments. Thomas Addison's interest in dermatology which led to the discovery of Addison's disease and John Snow's careful study of earlier cholera epidemics which prepared him for the great outbreak in 1854 are two illustrations of serendipity in science. Serendipity and intuition are responsible for most of the advances that science makes.

Serendipity, Scientific discoveries, Serendipity in science

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