The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology
The US Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918) (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15025300 |
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| Authors | Margaret Humphreys (0000-0003-0907-3516, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 960-961 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2003.0174 |
| OpenAlex | W2005893985 |
| Language | EN |
During the American Civil War, Philadelphia physician Jacob Mendez Da Costa was puzzled by a peculiar cardiac disease causing disability among young soldiers: they complained of chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, incapacitating fatigue on the slightest exertion, and fainting spells. He dubbed the syndrome "irritable heart." Also identified by British army medical officers in the 1860s, the disease was recognized in various forms over the next several decades, only to reemerge as a major problem among British troops during World War I
Cardiology · Chest pain · Exertion · Fainting · Palpitations · Political science · Psychiatry · Spanish Civil War · Internal Medicine · Law · Medical History and Innovations · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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