ADVERSE REACTIONS: Are relatively un-common; most frequently, nausea; less fre-
quently, drowsiness, dizziness, vomiting, pruritus, skin eruption, restlessness, insom-nia …

Newspaper headlines recently acclaimed a 55 year old man with chest pain for about one
year. A stress test given by his cardiologist was found to be markedly abnormal …

THEN my former teacher, the late Dr. Richard Cabot, retired from the faculty of the Harvard
Medical School to become Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard College, he told me that he …

Dr. Hackett is ading chief of psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate
professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston. toms did not help to reduce the …

• The heart being the philosophic seat of the emotions, anything affecting it evokes an
emotional response. Likewise, anything affecting the emotions has a physiologic counterpart …

Analysis of verbal samples collected under varied interview conditions showed coronary
disease patients to be significantly higher than controls on measures of anxiety, hostility …

Physicians, treating patients with acute myocardial infarction, have always been aware at a
clinical level that outcome depends not only on the physical consequences of the illness but …

One of the major problems of preventive cardiology is formed by the fact that a relatively
large number of those who get a myocardial infarction or wno die suddenly have visited a …

• Angina pectoris is a puzzling syndrome.! It occurs in patients with coronary insufficiency,
but what detennines whether they suffer the typical angina pains or not is not entirely clear …

• Generations of doctors have known and guarded against the deleterious side-actions of
drugs. There are also side-actions to almost every other therapeutic modality, the plaster …