Angina Pectoris

( Pathol.) An intense pain in the region of the heart, occuring in paroxysms. It is also called Breast Pang and Heart Stroke, and is attended with a sense of suffocation and faintne and an apprehension of sudden death. It is usually confined to persons having an organic disease of the heart, and frequently arises from a sudden emotional disturbance, particularly in men over fifty years of age. Death sometimes occurs in the paroxysms. Morphia, nitrate of sodium, nitrate of amyl, and other sedatives are usful as remedies. Angiotenic, ( an - je - ot'en - ik ,) a. [From Gr. aggeion , a ve el, and teinein , to stretch.] ( Med .) An epithet given to inflammatory fever, owing to its action seeming to be chiefly exerted on the vascular system. Angostu'ra Bark. ( Med .) The bark of Galipea cusparia , used as an aromatic or stimulant tonic. Dr. Hancock, who had large experience of its use in tropical South America, even preferred it to cinchona in the treatment of fever. In this country it is but little used, being deemed inferior to other remedies, and po ibly from the fact that a false Angostura bark was at one time, through inadvertence or cupidity, substituted for the genuine bark.