HISTORY OF THE TREATMENT OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE

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It was not my good fortune to have been one of Dr. Billings' students, but I was fortunate in my association with him in various medical affairs. He was always interested and interesting. I never failed to be impressed by his store of practical wisdom, his sense of relative values, and his quick recognition of the essential details of any matter under discussion. Dr. Billings contributed a great deal to American medicine. The American Medical Association is greatly indebted to him for his leadership in much of the best that this organization represents. Together with hundreds of others, I owe him a great deal. He was a strong man in every way and a leader and teacher of men. The story of angina pectoris as an expression of coronary disease long precedes Heberden's "Some Account of a Disorder of the Breast," which established it as a clinical entity. But it

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